Tigmanshu Bhatnagar Research Fellow / Lecturer at UCL

Video 17/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers

Dr Tigmanshu Bhatnagar is a research fellow at the GDI Hub. He is leading the Live Labs research, which explores new ways to facilitate user-centered design and development for assistive technology innovations.

His PhD research focused on the development of a new refreshable tactile disability technology, addressing a practical challenge of limited access to tactile information for blind students through a basic material science and user-centered design research.

His interest lies in disability innovation and design.

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.