Dilisha Patel Senior Researcher at UCL

Video 18/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers

Dilisha is a Senior Social Researcher focusing on Gender and Disability Inclusion at GDI Hub. She aspires for an equitable world for all. She drives this by working with marginalised populations to provide them with useful, usable and reliable tools to support themselves and their communities. She brings her expertise in women's health and reproductive and sexual health research to the team.

She works on delivering integrated country capacity assessments and leads policy-level research to improve access to AT for those who need it.

Dilisha has over 10 years of research experience in health, social care and digital health and mainly uses qualitative methods.

Funding information:

The TIDAL Network+ is a collaboration between UCL, Strathclyde, Salford and Loughborough Universities, led by Prof Cathy Holloway, Academic Director of Global Disability Innovation Hub and Professor at UCL. The research team includes Prof Laurence Kenney (Salford University), Prof Richard Bibb (Nottingham Trent University), Prof Mikko Koria (Loughborough University) and Dr Arjan Buis (Strathclyde University). We are funded from 1st September 2021 to 31st December 2024 by the EPSRC as a Healthcare Technologies New Challenges Network Plus (EP/W000717/1).

TIDAL stands for, ‘Transformative Innovation in the Delivery of Assisted Living Products and Services’. Our purpose is to improve the quality of Assistive Technologies (AT) and hence the lives of the people who use them, their families and carers.