Thanks for expressing an interest in my research. These termly updates give a short summary of activities and events surrounding my work on children’s communication and assistive technology. Over the course of 2021, I willContinue reading
Category: research
AAC research and practice
Last week I was grateful to be invited by the AAC journal club team to host a session which asked: What has changed with AAC technology and what next? The AAC journal club is aContinue reading
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Sign up here Throughout 2021, a central part of my ESRC postdoctoral fellowship will be to disseminate the findings of my doctoral research that investigated communication involving children with severe speech and physical impairments andContinue reading
Cultivating Care
For the benefit of three years down the line, when the pace of London life will likely resume to ‘business as normal’, I’m writing this post as daily routines are disrupted, relations protracted, and thoughtsContinue reading
What we Learn When Designing with Marginalised Children
IDC 2020 Workshop 12: What we Learn When Designing with Marginalised Children June 2020, online event So much child computer interaction (CCI) research has focused on the process of how to involve children and technologyContinue reading
So you’re thinking of academia? – An open letter to my fellow allied health professionals
As the UK healthcare system becomes evermore fraught with cutbacks in it’s decade of austerity, many allied healthcare professionals are choosing to side-step into academia. When I first became interested in research, my aim wasContinue reading
Transcription, representation and children’s voices
A large focus of my PhD work has been on finding ways of hearing and amplifying the voices of non-speaking children with physical disabilities. Generating children’s voices that are faithful to what children wantContinue reading
A video study on AAC use in conversations
I’m so delighted to share details of my first full paper co-authored with Mina Vasalou and Mike Clarke. It’s to appear in the CHI 2018 proceedings and has been awarded an honourable mention. Continue reading
A focus on values
Over recent years, child computer interaction (CCI) research has pushed the agenda for interaction design, embedding the contributions of children throughout the design process. Researchers are teasing out and critiquing the roles thatContinue reading
Ethics & integrity – How do we make it meaningful?
Judging from the nature of this post, you’ll probably gather that I’m reflecting on how to plan and carry out research that is ethical. The bigger challenge is being able to reflect this process inContinue reading