Neurodiversity and highways and transportation - Professor Amanda Kirby

This episode features an interview with Professor Amanda Kirby

CIHT Learn courses:

Planning and Designing Transport Infrastructure for Neurodivergent Users

Enabling Neuroinclusion in the Transport Profession


Professor Amanda Kirby MBBS MRCGP PhD FCGI

Amanda is an emeritus professor at the University of South Wales, an honorary professor at Cardiff University, and a Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin.

She is the founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions, a globally recognised tech-for-good company specialising in neurodiversity screening and support tools for education and employment, and justice settings.

With more than 35 years of clinical and research experience in neurodiversity, Amanda has authored 10 books and over 100 research papers. Her 2021 book, Neurodiversity at Work, won the EDI Business Book Award. She was the Chair of the ADHD Foundation and has worked closely with several other charities in this sector. She has been a contributor to developing global standards, such as the UK’s BSI’s Design for the Mind guidelines. She is currently writing her 11th book on Neurodiversity and Parenting.

She has recently chaired the Neurodiversity at Work review for DWP and is leading on the City and Guilds Neurodiversity Index- 2026, which will be out in March.

Amanda is a LinkedIn Top Voice with 150,000+ followers and has a weekly subscriber base to her Neurodiversity 101 newsletter of 165,000+.

Her passion remains championing neurodivergent talent and creating inclusive workplaces as a parent, grandparent of neurodivergent family members, as well as recognising herself as having neurodivergent traits.

Also referenced in the episode - Design for the Mind. Neurodiversity & the Built Environment - PAS 6463