News

Collaborate Sprint with Loughborough University London gets students thinking about accessible design

69 global innovators join our new Accessibility, Assistive and Inclusion Technologies fellowship delivered in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering

14 March 2026
01:52 UK / 21:52 EST

Innovate Now Fellowship Launches During AI & Inclusion Challenge 2025

Building a Case for Disability-Inclusive Local Climate Action.

Building Inclusive Speech Recognition for All in Kenya

14 March 2026
01:52 UK / 21:52 EST

GDI Hub at COP 30

GDI Hub at the 4th Global Data Science and AI Summit, Spotlighting AI and Inclusion

Student spotlight: Kavya Mukhija

Inclusive Employment: Advancing Access to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities

How do we tackle inequality in the new global context?

Investing in Innovation - a reception on the margins of the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group in Washington

UCL joins UK Prime Minister India visit and unveils new technology collaborations

More Than Games: Why Sport Must Matter in the Assistive Technology Agenda

A classroom prototype became a real-world accessibility tool 

Inclusive ASR Innovation Sprint to Empower People with Non-Typical Speech in Kenya.

Register interest for the upcoming AT2030 Symposium: Nepal, October 2025

GDI Hub Responds to Government’s Disability Benefit Reform Proposals with Call for Inclusive, Evidence-Based Policy

GDI Hub Co-Hosts Event on the Future of Inclusive Finance

The Future of Financial Inclusion: Transforming global financing and the finance sector from the inside out.

Google Spotlights Accessibility Breakthroughs with GDI Hub on Mobile and AI Innovation

Financial Inclusion: Trade Finance Global, ADB and GDI Hub’s Push for Accessibility in the Financial Sector

Inclusive Cities

Asian Development Bank launches 5 strategic and operational tools for banks to use in improving the financial inclusion and employment of people with disabilities.

GDI Hub's Cara Yar Khan is listed in Condé Nast Traveller '25 people making the world more accessible for 2025'

Professor Paul Brickell recognised in New Year Honours

UCL Grand Challenges: A Catalyst to GDI Hub's Global Impact

Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces AI ambitions at UCL East, the home of GDI Hub

Changing lives through AI - a new Centre for Digital Language Inclusion will bridge the barrier between non-standard speech and the use of Automatic Speech Recognition for disabled people worldwide

Global Disability Innovation Hub Disability Innovation Strategy 2025 - 2030

UCL student wins Diana Award 2024 for landmark action on disability rights

Disability, Design and Innovation MSc student wins Diana Award 2024 for social service

27 Indian students win Diana Award 2024 for social service [including Disability, Design & Innovation MSc student Kavya Mukhija]

UCL and Indian partners announce new round of funding for 50 disability inclusion startups [as our Attvaran accelerator continues to grow]

Google, University of Ghana and GDI Hub to Expand AI-Powered Speech Recognition for Non-Standard Speech in Ghanaian Languages

Easy-fit prosthetics offer hope to thousands of Gaza amputees - BBC article showcasing how GDI Hub supported innovations are changing lives

Can AI help Africa close the development gap? [financial times piece explores how our AT2030 programme has tested the google relate app]

16 Assistive Technology startups receive seed grants worth ₹78.5 Lakhs at the EMPOWER 2024 Pitch Day

Exploring Bionic Innovation with Professor Hugh Herr: biomechatronics, global healthcare innovation, and Assistive Technologies

Seeking an experienced General Partner (investment fund manager) to build on our success supporting companies ready to scale that are already changing the way people live, learn, and work.

Disability, innovation and the power of Paralympic legacy – a reception to remember at the British ambassador's residence to mark the start of the 2024 Paris Paralympics

Launch of TIDAL Accelerator to Support Early Career Researchers in Commercialising Innovative Technologies

The Global Disability Innovation Hub announces Iain McKinnon as new CEO – as disability innovation continues to emerge as a leading global mechanism to transform lives

How the Inclusive innovation challenge aims to ensure rights and choices for youth with disabilities

Disability-Inclusive climate finance matters. Here's why.

Disability Inclusion in Climate Finance

Social Finance and Investing For Good become the first delivery partners for AT2030's Accessible and Assistive Technology Growth Fund

His Majesty the King concludes visit to Kenya with encouragement for Assistive Technology innovators, and meets ventures from our Innovate Now accelerator

A trio of second place awards at the Disability Power 100 for Global Disability Innovation Hub founders & colleagues

Celebrating Excellence: Winners Announced at the 2023 Engineering Talent Awards! With GDI Hub innovation winning Innovation of the Year

Winners of the AccessAbility innovation challenge

Inclusive Infrastructure Case Study Launched in Medellín, Colombia - Exploring Inclusive Environments

Graduation of our latest Disability, Design & Innovation Masters cohort: a new wave of pioneers begins

UCL and Indian partners to drive disability innovation through assistive technology

Bridging resource - how new management of the AskSource platform will enable this important online disability resource centre to evolve

Exploring the impact of assistive technology for people with deafblindness in Southern Africa: a Delphi study

UK aid announces £31 million to improve access to life-changing Assistive Technology for all, backing increased ground-breaking innovation and research by the AT2030 programme, led by Global Disability Innovation Hub, at UCL.

GDI Hub welcome new Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Assistive Technology Changes Lives: an assessment of AT need and capacity in England

GDI Hub at Conference of State Parties (COSP) - exploring ‘What Works’ to improve access to life-changing Assistive Tech (AT) for all

AccessAbility: Inclusive innovation challenge to ensure rights and choices for youth with disabilities

GDI Hub, Google and AT Scale launch pioneering project to test ‘Mobile at Assistive Tech’ in Kenya, Brazil and India.

G20 India: Assistive Technology Dialogue. Join us and join the conversation.

Supporting emerging disabled leaders; how Judith Heumann shared her reflections with the Disabled Leaders Network

GDI Hub’s Inclusive Design team welcomes Shivani Gupta as they grow their presence in Asia and the Pacific Region

A new playbook is launched to share insights from inside the Assistive Tech Impact Fund

Minister for Disabled People opens the Global Disability Innovation Hub's transformative assistive technology research lab on UCL’s new campus

Medellín announced as the sixth AT2030 Inclusive Infrastructure Case Study

Inclusive Infrastructure Case Study is launched in Nairobi, a city experiencing rapid growth and investment in infrastructure

Launch of WHO Training in Assistive Products: a new open access online training resource for primary health workers

Inclusive Design Strategy

Africa's new hub for Health Emergencies and why Inclusive Humanitarian Responses matter

GDI Hub researcher students win UCL Computer Science Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Student Awards

GDI Hub at World Urban Forum: Inclusive and Resilient Cities for Persons with Disabilities

Ms. Bjørg Sandkjæ, Secretary of State for Norway discusses Access, Assistive Tech, Innovation and Development

WeThe15 named International Campaign of the Year at 2022 Sport Industry Awards

UK stands up for AT in significant Parliamentary moment for disability and international development, as GDI Hub holds House of Commons reception

Launching AT for a Fairer World: GDI Hub and Minister for Trade Policy marks the Global Report on AT and the WHO Collaborating Centre on AT at UCL

GDI Hub takes the stage alongside Her Excellency Ms. Amina J. Mohamed and Stevie Wonder to launch the Global Report on Assistive Technology

AT in the UK. Capturing your stories and images; what does AT mean in your everyday life?

A new report into the Disabled Students Allowance

Innovate Now, Africa's first Assistive Technology accelerator reignited as Norwegian government backs African innovations

Why study Disability, Design and Innovation: in conversation with Cathy Holloway

GDI Hub “commits to change” at the Global Disability Summit 2022

Publication: ICT Landscape review - The use of ICT in improving the educational participation & outcomes