Selvie Hayward Deaf Disability Academic

Video 9/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers

Selvie is a cochlear implant and hearing aid user. She has been hard of hearing since birth and when she received an implant later on, it helped her to hear more sounds.

She currently works as a TEFL English teacher, and previously worked in a market research company.

While she has lived experience of her disability, she also chose to undertake a Disability Studies masters, which helped her gain a more in depth understanding of different inclusive research methods and the barriers disabled people can face.

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.