I believe research should create real change — and that change doesn’t only happen through academic papers. Over the years I’ve made documentaries, built exhibitions, created virtual reality experiences, given evidence to parliament, and worked with organisations trying to make their spaces genuinely more accessible. This page pulls some of that work together.
If you’d like to know more about any of these projects, or explore how we might work together, get in touch.
Invisible – Documentary
Invisible features six disabled women activists working to change what we see in our world. It grew out of a research project I conducted with Oana Branzei at Ivey Business School through the Covid-19 pandemic, and it’s now used in classrooms across five countries. It has had over 1,500 views on YouTube and is under licensing by SAGE..
Layers of Vision exhibition
Layers of Vision is an art exhibition created with blind and partially sighted artists. It explores what it means to make and experience art in a world designed for sighted people — and what museums can do differently to make their spaces genuinely accessible. The project was shortlisted for the Zero Project Award 2026, won the King’s Business School Impact Prize 2023, was featured in The Guardian in July 2025, and led to a policy workshop at the UK Parliament in 2025. It’s an ongoing collaboration with Katharina C. Husemann and Leighanne Higgins.. Find out more on its own website.
Accessible Lives
Created for the Unboxed Festival 2022 with Charisma, this VR experience puts people inside the everyday reality of using assistive technology. It was developed as part of a StoryFutures-funded project exploring how immersive technology can shift attitudes toward disability and access.
Accessibility & Me — Podcast
A podcast series on disability, work, leisure and life, made with Luke Coughlan in 2022. Each episode takes a different aspect of everyday life and looks at it through the lens of access and inclusion.
Spring Institute on Disability
The Spring Institute is a free, fully virtual, annual global institute for disability researchers. I co-founded it in 2021 with colleagues, and it now connects researchers across six continents every year. It runs without registration fees because we think access to research community shouldn’t depend on having an institutional budget.
Policy work
Research only goes so far if it doesn’t reach the people making decisions. I’ve given written evidence to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee inquiry on disability employment (2024), the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry on the National Disability Strategy (2022), and the Science and Technology Committee inquiry on diversity in STEM (2021–2022). I’ve also contributed to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women and Enterprise report, and attended an invitation-only APPG session on disabled women in politics in October 2025.