Letty Raby Disabled Content Creator, Consultant and Academic
Video 4/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers series
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Video 4/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers
Letty recently graduated from studying Biomedical Engineering at the University of Surrey. They are content creator and consultant mainly focusing on the Deaf and disabled experience and accessibility.
Letty is working towards a career in the disability design space and love using their engineering background to come up with innovative solutions that promote accessibility.
Letty wanted to be part of this project because without a disabled perspective, studies are missing out on unique insights and diverse data. The first step of which to gaining is to design accessible studies that disabled participants can fully engage in.
Funding information:
The TIDAL Network+ is a collaboration between UCL, Strathclyde, Salford and Loughborough Universities, led by Prof Cathy Holloway, Academic Director of Global Disability Innovation Hub and Professor at UCL. The research team includes Prof Laurence Kenney (Salford University), Prof Richard Bibb (Nottingham Trent University), Prof Mikko Koria (Loughborough University) and Dr Arjan Buis (Strathclyde University). We are funded from 1st September 2021 to 31st December 2024 by the EPSRC as a Healthcare Technologies New Challenges Network Plus (EP/W000717/1).
TIDAL stands for, ‘Transformative Innovation in the Delivery of Assisted Living Products and Services’. Our purpose is to improve the quality of Assistive Technologies (AT) and hence the lives of the people who use them, their families and carers.
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