Established in 2009 at UBC’s Faculty of Education, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA), seeks to address areas of common concern, relevant to improving the lives of autistic individuals and their families.

Drawing together autistic individuals, autistic advocates, faculty, students, provincial services providers, policy makers, and both basic and applied researchers from BC post-secondary institutions together, the CIRCA seeks to drive innovation through the nurturance of intradisciplinary, collaborative work, in order to contribute to the development of knowledge advances across multiple fields of inquiry.