Lecturer @ Global Disability Innovation Hub, UCL, UK. Research: Materials, Design, Assistive Technology, Disability, Local Production Systems
London, UK
Joined June 2020
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Please contact us ASAP if you are living with arthritis and would be interested in helping design new solutions. You will be reimbursed for your time. Thanks very much!
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Our research paper ‘Additive manufacturing techniques for smart prosthetic liners‘ has been awarded the Jack Perkins Prize for best paper in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics in 2021. The work was led by the brilliant @BOldfrey More here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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We’re thrilled to launch #KenyaRepairReuseWeek during the last week of April.
Bringing together 4+ months of work, we’ll be sharing our @FCDO_Research-funded new report ‘Landscaping the Repair & Reuse Economy in Kenya’ & more...🔧🇰🇪
🚀Get involved: linktr.ee/BFCKenyaRepairReus…
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Our Disability, Design and Innovation MSc is a multidisciplinary course about solving complex problems and making a fairer world.
Interested? Apply now to join our next cohort in September 2022! 👉 bit.ly/3bB7fK0
@ucl @lborolondon @LCFLondon
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Assistive technology repair centres at the #Paralympics make sure that paralympians assistive products are repaired quickly and are safe for competition!🔨🗜⚙🔩
#AssistiveTechnology #OandP #Wheelchairs @Paralympics
ALT A 3 wheeled racing wheelchair on a repair bench
ALT 4 people sitting down discussing the repair of a lower limb orthoses
ALT A workshop with a wooden bench and lots of tools, vices and equipment on it. People are working on repairing various products around the table.
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Today @GDIHub CEO and official @WeThe15 spokesperson, @VickiAustinGDI, was able to share the #WeThe15 message across UK media - through @BBCNews and @TimesRadio 💜
ALT A photo of GDI Hub CEO, Vicki Austin, on a television being interviewed by the BBC News
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Thank you @ucl for always supporting @GDIHub and for lighting up purple for #WeThe15 today. @cathyholloway1 was there to watch!
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Fantastic to see the TAP absorbent incontinence products module in use, thanks to the brilliant teams at @RDT_anantapur and @MobilityIN 🙌🤝 #incontinence #AccessToAT #TrainingInAssistiveProducts
For the last two days, RDT along with @who @MobilityIN @GATE_AT_World received trainings for implementing the application of absorbent continence products, aiming to strengthen access to assistive technology. Proud to be a part of this!
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#Accessibility #DisabilityInclusion
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How do you grow businesses in #LMICs, responding to #COVID19, & have cross-cutting production challenges?
Partner w/ #Africa’s largest #innovation network, @AfriLabs, and use their experience developing enterprises to create a bespoke Accelerator! So that’s what we did! 🙌🏿1/6
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Accelerator activities will round up later this week. 🥳
The initiative can serve as a model to aid social enterprises and support flexible production ecosystems in the future. Stay tuned for more updates on our experience. 6/6
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The #LPLS initiative also created educational resources to enhance learning and practice including videos explaining key subjects, case studies using real-world illustrations, quizzes to test understanding, and activities to apply what they learned. 🧠
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The #LPLS #Accelerator is composed of two essential components – context-specific curriculum and mentorship from #local experts. 4/6
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The Local Production Local Solutions theme collaborated with @AfriLabs to map the needs of entrepreneurs it’s supporting.
We did this in 4 ways: a needs assessment of submitted proposals, discussions with innovators, a survey, & info from our community-building activities. 2/6
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This is key to solving the problem of unemployment & survival during a pandemic like COVID-19.
Today we moved a step forward in supporting indigenous products development and manufacturing.
*Hardware
*Engineering
*CLINTONEL
Supported by LPLS @COVIDactionTech @UKaid
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We have launched the Vaccine Data Co-Lab!
📢An open call for proposals that address vaccine data needs
🤓Emerging research and global guidance
🌍Coordination with existing in-country data partners
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In #Kenya, Local Production Local Solution enterprises @SilafricaKenya, @TakaTakaSol, and @JuakaliSME are collaborating to fight unemployment and pandemic pollution! 🇰🇪
Read about their approach to innovate the scaling and reuse of #PPE. 🤝
medium.com/covidaction/busin…
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Day 3 of COVIDaction training for local businesses. The local production local solution training is funded through @COVIDactionTech in partnership with @AfriLabs.
#COVIDaction #ImpactHubLagos #ImpactHub
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How might we take a new Oxygen Concentrator innovation to market? We asked Oxygen CoLab participants for their thoughts on our first Meet up.
Here's what we've learned 👇
link.medium.com/ca7KnLZKleb
