Richard Peacock Person with lived experience of Multiple Sclerosis

Video 7/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers

Rich Peacock is an artist, publisher, curator, and live event producer who has been immersed in the creative/design world since 1985.

He was a senior editor in advertising until he got Multiple Sclerosis in 1997. Within four years, he was forced to stop working due to multiple disabilities and fatigue.

MS is a very difficult disease, but when Rich is well, he has worked as an independent creator. He has also spent twenty years as a producer and curator, putting on music, art, theatre, exhibitions, and circus shows in my community. He also has a publishing company – Peacock Imprint and has returned to his first love of printmaking and publishing.

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.