Serenity Isaiah: Disability and Social Activist

Video 2/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers

Serenity is a playwright, motherhood practitioner, carer and social activist with a penchant for baking.

She was diagnosed with CPTSD in 2012. She also is AuDHD and, as such, is an advocate for neuro-inclusive practices and trauma-informed approaches within institutions. She believe in the importance of forging our own networks outside of the scope of what is considered normative so that we receive validation, support and reflective community, which equally pushes the social and cultural elements of change.

She has come to see disability in a different way; it is neither a matter of sickness nor of superpower, as some will have us believe in relation to ADHD. It is complex and nuanced in that it is human.

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.