Grants & Funding

  • EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Award (Co-I) – £50,000. Jan – Aug 2025
  • ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (PI) – £131,000. Jan – Dec 2021
  • ESRC PhD Studentship (PI)- £44,760. Sept 2016 – Aug 2018
  • SIGCHI Student Travel Grant – 2018
  • RCSLT Minor Grants Travel Award 2017

Paper Awards

  • 2025: Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI’25) – Honourable mention paper award – top 5% of 5,014 submitted papers – First-authored work on Ecological Momentary Assessment as intervention.
  • 2025: Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI’25) – Honourable mention paper award – top 5% of 5,014 submitted papers – Co-authored work on micro-narratives as a scalable story elicitation tool.
  • 2025: AAC Journal Editor’s Choice Award for 2023 - First-authored work based on PhD research paper: Common Ground in AAC
  • 2024: SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility – Best paper award nominee, co-authored work on designing mixed reality AAC devices.
  • 2023: Special recognition for ‘outstanding reviews’ CHI 2024 for 3 papers
  • 2020: Interaction Design & Children (IDC’20) – Best paper award out of 172 submitted papers – First-authored work on Design Documentaries for disability and design
  • 2020: Special recognition for ‘outstanding review’ at ACM CHI PLAY
  • 2018: Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI’18) – Honourable mention paper award – top 5% of 2,592 submitted papers – First-authored work on Design opportunities for AAC

Academic Service

  • ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference Co-Chair for Pictorials track – 2026
  • ACM IDC Conference Co-Chair for Pictorials track – 2025
  • Dept. Early Career Representative, UCL IOE – Sep 2020 – Dec 2021
  • ACM IDC Conference Communications Co-Chair – 2020 and 2022
  • UCL Knowledge Lab staff ‘connected team’ committee member – Jan 2019 – Dec 2021 (Supporting links between PhD students and lab colleagues through forums/events)
  • ACM SIGCHI conference student volunteer for: IDC2017, PDC2018 and CHI 2019
  • Regular reviewer for conference and journal papers from 2015 to date, including AAC journal, CHI, IDC, DIS, CHIPLAY, IJCCI, IJHCS and TOCHI

Professional Accreditation

  • Certified Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (cert. MRCSLT), 2004 – current
  • Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered, 2004 – current
  • Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2018 - present