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Mindfulness-based Embodied Tangible Interactions for Stroke Rehabilitation at Home

Co-Creating Disability-Inclusive Climate Solutions 

Designing for Inclusion: GDI Hub Partners with Loughborough Students on Accessibility Challenge

Reflections from COSP18

Empowering Mobility in Kenya: The Journey So Far

Banking on everyone: Why inclusion is the next competitive advantage

GDI Hub's Contribution at CPD58: Advancing Gender-Inclusive Assistive Technology

Meet the Team: Amyn, Head of Research and Delivery

Reflections on Opportunities in Accessible EdTech: An Afternoon at the BETT Conference

Focus, Scale, Impact: Butterfly Innovation to change the world? Dr Victoria Austin reflects on the power of butterfly innovation, where small changes can lead to much larger impacts

Global Disability Innovation Hub Disability Innovation Strategy 2025 - 2030: Reflections from CEO Iain McKinnon

Meet the Team: Amélie, Project Manager.

Seeking submissions for special issue of the Academic Journal Nature Communications on Wearable Devices for Assisted Mobility, edited by Professor Catherine Holloway, the academic director and co-founder of Global Disability Innovation Hub

Paris Paralympics - A reflection on the performance on and off the field

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Assistive technology can revolutionize development, learning and participation: It’s time children everywhere have access.

Meet the team: Shivani Gupta

Guest Blog: European Accessibility Act; a game changer or another flash in the pan?

Guest blog: Advancing recognition of the positive impact of accessibility and digital inclusion on society

Guest blog: Jumping through hoops

Guest Blog: Disability-Inclusive ICT Research and Innovation – For a Different Future

Guest Blog: Inclusive Public Activities for ICT: Information and Communication Technologies

Guest Blog: Unlocking Inclusivity: The Power of Accessibility in ICT

Guest Blog: Disability Inclusion in ICT – An evolution through opportunities, education & continued training

UCL East: Dr Daniel Hajas, Innovation Manager at the Global Disability Innovation Hub

Uniting Nations: Breaking Stigma Through Para Sports and Assistive Technology in Malawi

Communicating inclusive design in different ways - a story from Medellín, Colombia

Meet the team: Ben Oldfrey

Investing in Disability Inclusion: An Opportunity for Employers and Investors

AT2030 Inclusive Infrastructure Film: Six Cities, One Park!

Learning to design accessibly with MSc DDI

Guest Blog: Access to services in cancer care

Meet the team: Daniel

Meet the team: Dilisha

UCL’s Inclusive Design & Environments Module – Shaping Future Mindsets

Research is my form of activism

Assistive technology in your pocket: the transformative potential of smartphones

Meet the team: Harrison

Meet the team: Marketa

Innovation Spotlight: Lugha Ishara tackling language deprivation in Deaf children.

Signs TV Case Study

Innovation Spotlight: Riziki Source, connecting people with disabilities to job opportunities

Innovation Spotlight: From junk to wheelchairs, the story of Lincon Wamae – an engineer and innovator

Assistive Technology and Education: Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

Reflections from Derick, graduate of the MSc DDI

Edwin Phiri on the role of fashion in disability innovation

Allied Health Profession Day

Innovation Spotlight: Building a walking companion for the visually impaired.

Innovation Spotlight: From recovery to innovation: the journey to create a revolutionary, low cost, all-terrain wheelchair, that can be manufactured with basic tools, using locally available materials and components.

Innovation Spotlight: Creating universal access to safe and appropriate sanitation, through innovating accessible toilets for people with disability.

Innovation Spotlight: Completing the communication cycle among deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people

Six things the London 2012 Paralympic Games taught us about driving disability innovation for a fairer world

Changing the investment landscape for AT [Part of our new blog series: AT, Entrepreneurship & Finance - with GDI Hub's Assistive Tech Impact Fund]

My In2science placement with GDI Hub - Victoria shares her new found engineering passion

Balancing Volatility - Emerging African Ecosystems [Part of our new blog series: AT, Entrepreneurship & Finance - with GDI Hub's Assistive Tech Impact Fund]

Bournemouth University’s Assistive Technology Research to Increase Independence

Profit for impact in the Assistive Tech space [Part of our new blog series: AT, Entrepreneurship & Finance - with GDI Hub's Assistive Tech Impact Fund]

Marketing matters for AT [Part of our new blog series: AT, Entrepreneurship & Finance - with GDI Hub's Assistive Tech Impact Fund]

Validate to find customers in AT ventures [Part of our new blog series: AT, Entrepreneurship & Finance - with GDI Hub's Assistive Tech Impact Fund]

Embedding Inclusive Design in Urban Development: GDI Hub’s Inclusive Design team at the World Urban Forum (WUF11)

Making the direct-to-consumer model work for AT [Part of our new blog series: AT, Entrepreneurship & Finance - with GDI Hub's Assistive Tech Impact Fund]

Celebrating the launch of the findings of AT2030’s sub-programmes in Indonesia. From Citizens to Cities: Participatory Approaches to Building Disability-Inclusive Cities

GDI Hub Visit to Kenya: Kilimanjaro Blind Trust Africa and InnovateNow (Part 2)

GDI Hub Visit to Kenya: Inclusive Africa Conference (Part 1)

Material Conversations: Creating Multi-sensory Art with Blind and Partially Sighted People

Normalising limb difference. An April Campaign.

The DAISY PROJECT and BethanyKids: the opportunity to embrace the life given to us.

Freedom of expression and opinion is a fundamental human right copy: Pendle View Primary School (Part 2)

Freedom of expression and opinion is a fundamental human right: Pendle View Primary School (Part 1)

The publication of the Global Report on AT is a brilliant start, but it's what we do next that matters to 3.5 billion people around the world who need access to AT”

Disabled Leaders Network: Jonny Huntington - disabled athlete and explorer.

From MSc Disability, Design & Innovation to a PHD in social biofeedback for virtual environments

Stories from Ukraine

Disability, Design & Innovation; an MSc for change-makers

The purely economic case for investing in Health for All

Regulations in Assistive Technology

Humanitarian assistance and AT: A conversation with Dr Maria Kett

Assistive Technology in the UK - a clinician's perspective

Empowering People with Cerebral palsy: the Stasism project

Gratitude, Celebration and Reflections-International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2021

A World Apart: A Global Clubfoot Journey Fuelled by One Woman’s Resolve

GDI Hub celebrate IDPD: "Education is a Tool"

GDI Hub celebrate IDPD: "My Blue Brick Journey"

GDI Hub celebrate IDPD: Assistive Technology through COVID-19

GDI Hub celebrate IDPD 2021: "Inclusive design as essential goods"

Changing the Investment Landscape

What is Climate resilient inclusive design and why do we need it? GDI Hub at COP26

Disabled Leaders Network: Inclusive Workspaces

My journey with Disability, Design and Innovation

Can Paralympic sport break down barriers to assistive technology use in Africa?

Inclusive Design Practice Series: Can the adoption of inclusive adaptations that we have seen during Covid, such as remote working and online calls, have a sustainable impact?

Inclusive Design Practice Series: Social Practices of Inclusive Design at Sheffield MENCAP Friday Sports Club

Amplifying disabled voices through community engagement

Q & A with: Paralympian Nyasha Mharakurwa who plays wheelchair Tennis for Zimbabwe

Q & A with: Paralympian Jack Hunter-Spivey who plays table tennis for Great Britain

Inclusive Design Practice Series: (Un)conscious Practices in Design: Shifting from Surviving to Thriving

Reflections of MSc Disability, Design and Innovation 2020 - 2021

GDI Hub Research and Innovation Initiatives

A Legacy to Note on Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021: Memories of Margaret Hickish MBE – a Mentor and Friend

AT Impact Fund: How we do impactful research

Reflections on the MSc Disability Design and Innovation - bringing all the parts of myself to this degree

MSc Stories: After a Neuroscience degree, I wanted to use my understanding of disability and join the field of inclusive design

Why I choose to join Disability, Design and Innovation MSc

Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) with East London Inclusive Enterprise Zone (ELIEZ)

Exploring the experience of persons with disabilities of using mobile technology in their daily lives in Kenya and Bangladesh

Inclusive Design Research in a Pandemic: Working Remotely in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

How self-love and meditation helped Brandon Winfield be a successful innovator.

Iyiola Olafimihan: coproduction is key to innovating Assistive Technology

What is Assistive Tech, who is it for, and what does it enable?

Popular culture can set stigma alight in seconds but to sustain change the fire must be ready to burn

From physiotherapy to an inclusive design award: my MSc journey

Gender and disability in informal settlements during COVID-19: What we have learnt so far

Partnership launched with ATScale

COVID-19 response: 3D Printing face shields for the NHS

How access to education changed the trajectory of my entire life

Investing in inspirational disabled leaders; a journey into Snowdon scholarships

Opportunities and challenges for disability inclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic

I am an autistic researcher and this is why Autism Acceptance matters to all of us

COVID-19 response: using Assistive Technology learnings to seek emerging market ventilation solutions

Telling our truth is part of the struggle for a fairer world

Happy holidays! Highlights of our amazing year

Celebrating International Disability Day in Sierra Leone

We're taking over UCL channels for International Day of Persons with Disabilities

India's growing interest on disability innovation: a reflection on the Empower Conference 2019

Computers and Accessibility: My experience at the ASSETS 2019

Chronicles from the CHI Play Workshop on Disability and Digital Games

Volunteering as a first step to disability research

Assistive Technology Changed My Life

ISPO Congress Summary

Iain McKinnon and Tim Adlam visited British Council Egypt

My experience at the XVIII World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf

Reflections on the challenges that people with disabilities face in Kibera, Nairobi

One small step for an amputee and a giant leap for Amparo and GDI Hub

What to expect from our new MSc in Disability Innovation

Why inclusive design matters and how we are leading change

Whose story is it to tell?

How to build environments that empower disabled people?

Partnerships of Equivalence & Building a Disability Movement

How can we innovate and co-create in autism research?

Do we have the right Global Strategy to build access to Assistive Technology?

Bridging the gap between communities and Assistive Tech in East London

The future of (mobile) innovation is inclusive

Paris 2024 - the first Innovation Games?

Inclusive Design at the Design Museum