Uzair Ibrahim Disabled Doctoral Scholar

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Uzair Ibrahim is the Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholar in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.

Before joining Exeter, he completed an MA with distinction in South Asian Studies at SOAS, University of London, funded by The Institute of Ismaili Studies as part of their flagship Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities, which he completed in 2020.

He arrived at the Institute from Habib University, Pakistan, where he obtained a BSc (Honors) in Social Development and Policy in 2018. He has been a lifelong wheelchair user.

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.