Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set is an 8-year research project (2019-2028) funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) as part of the Future Leaders Fellowships initiative.
The Team
The project is lead by Dr Sarah Lewthwaite (Principal Investigator) who is a Principa Research Fellow and Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Research in Inclusion, Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton. Joining Sarah is Research Fellow Dr Andy Coverdale. Both bring significant expertise in inclusion and digital accessibility.
Previous team members include Geane Fontinele (2023-2024), Sarah Horton (2020-2022, Visiting Fellow, 2022-2024) and Angharad Butler-Rees (2019-2020).
Advisory Group
Current members:
Prof. Jane Seale (The Open University),
EA Draffan (University of Southampton),
Larry Goldberg (TeachAccess),
Previous members:
Dr Abi James, (AbilityNet) (May 2019 – December 2020)
Dr David Sloan, (The Paciello Group) (May 2019 – December 2020)