Disability stigma, prejudice and discrimination is deeply rooted in global society. As a result, disabled people are more likely to live below the poverty line, have lower levels of education, face hate crime and to be excluded from society. With my research, I aim to create positive changes for the disability community by understanding how organisations of all types can become more disability-conclusive. 

As a management academic, I focus my research on work which can be part of employment, running a business or volunteering. I use concepts such as meaning(fulness), stigma, and allyship. I further take an embodied view –  a view that takes the body and how it processes situations into account. I am a qualitative researcher. I like to engage in in-depth ethnographic work to gain as much insight into someone’s lived experience as possible. I further aim to make my research approaches inclusive and also make use of arts-based and multi-modal methods. I also strongly believe in allyship within research to ensure that marginalised and overlooked voices are not just heard but represented and presented in an way that my research participants feel they should be

Through my research, I aim to better understand how to improve economic participation and societal inclusion for disabled people. This translates into research across all aspects of live including entrepreneurship for and by disabled people, disability at work (unpaid and paid)  as well as leisure, travel and tourism.

You can find links to some of my current projects and initiatives below.