Disability

Read my blogs about disability

I was Chief Sub-Editor for Channel 4 teletext at Channel 4. I managed a team of 8 journalists, as well as writing and editing the sports and books sections of Channel 4’s national teletext service.

I became disabled in 1991 when I was diagnosed with Repetitive strain injury (RSI).

I was out of work until 1994, when I joined Scope’s Fast-Track disabled graduate scheme.

I’m now the senior editor in Scope’s Content Design team. We produce the information and advice on Scope’s website.

Read my blog on Disability and inclusive language for Content Design London.

My interest in disability history has grown.

Changing Society

To mark disability charity Scope’s 50th anniversary in 2002, I worked with Disability Now’s Chris Davies on an oral history.

Can You Manage Stares?

I edited the autobiography of Scope founder Bill Hargreaves, a disabled pioneer in the fields of emploment and leisure. His parents were told that, because he had cerebral palsy, he would ”never walk or work or wed”. Bill’s remarkable life defied the doctor’s diagnosis.

Speaking for Ourselves

Made possible by the Heritage Lottery Fund and our disabled volunteers, we created an archive of over 250 hours of oral history interviews with people with cerebral palsy born before 1950.

Listen to my Scope history podcast on YouTube.

I am working with the Wellcome Collection to make Scope’s archive accessible to historians.