Disability Innovation Strategy 2021 – 2024 Global Disability Innovation Hub

GDI-Hub-Strategy_21-24_2021-06-18-071837.pdf (disabilityinnovation.com)

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Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub) is a research and practice centre driving disability innovation for a fairer world.

Our team has the necessary combination of world-class expertise and an outcome-focused mindset advancing our agenda across 5 thematic areas: Assistive and Accessible Technology (AT), Inclusive Design, Inclusive Education Technology, Inclusive Climate and Crisis Resilience and Cultural Participation.

We believe disability innovation is more than a product, service or a policy. It is a way of thinking to shift the agendas of mainstream delivery partners towards fairer future societies and communities.

We push the boundaries towards maximal inclusion. Disability innovation is part of a bigger movement for disability justice, which must disrupt current ideas and practice to create new possibilities.

We believe a fairer world is one without barriers to participation within an inclusive and environmentally sustainable society. Founded by top academic institutions and the team responsible for the London 2012 Paralympic Legacy programme, GDI Hub brings a unique multidisciplinary perspective to the rapidly evolving field of Disability Innovation.

Attracting and growing T-shaped talent (people who have a depth of expertise and the breadth of experience to apply it). Our MSc Disability Design & Innovation attracts people with a depth of knowledge, and equips them with a broad innovation skill-set. We are unique in the teams we grow, our ways of working, and our structure.

GDI Hub is made up of the UCL-led, Academic Research Centre (ARC) and the associate non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC). Both are guided by an Advisory Board made up of disabled people with representatives from three continents; we drive new thinking together. Transformative outcomes can be achieved by doing things differently. We bring together the coalitions that others haven’t, to lead new thinking which can overcome intractable barriers to participation.