Anne MacKinnon

I work in the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) on Disability and AT Research. Views/retweets are my own and not endorsements

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

📢 Congratulations @GDIHub + all of our programme partners on this new funding for @AssistTech2030!

All testament to your hard work & achievements so far.

Really looking forward to working with you in this new phase of the programme! 😀👍👏

[FCDO Inclusive @FCDOInclusive]

#BREAKING_NEWS from #COSP16

🇬🇧 gov announce new £31M investment in #AT2030 programme to deliver #WhatWorks to improve access to #AssistiveTechnology for people with disabilities.

WATCH 👇 from 🇬🇧 Minister of State for #Development @AndrewmitchMP

@GDIHub @WHO @FCDOGovUK #talkAT

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

@PeterEvans_Guv @FCDOREDGCSD @FCDOResearch And did you get the ‘Greggs’ underpants I recommended?!?! 🤣

[International Disability Alliance (IDA) @IDA_CRPD_Forum]

"Nothing About Us, Without Us!" is a well-known motto for the disability movement. It means that governments and other decision makers must include us in all issues that concern us as humans, not only as people with #disabilities. #DisabilityInclusion

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

@daryllloyd @ICED_LSHTM @FCDOInclusive @BIGD_bracu And, the @EvidencePortal is a critical tool to help policy makers put that evidence into action

Fantastic session👏
@daryllloyd @ICED_LSHTM & @FCDOInclusive @FCDOResearch @FCDOREDGCSD #PENDA

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

@daryllloyd @ICED_LSHTM @FCDOInclusive @BIGD_bracu People with disabilities account for approx 15% of the population

We need to encourage our partners to consider people with disabilities in all of their research!

We have a lot of work to do, but @BIGD_bracu have shown that it can be done!!

[Disability Evidence Portal @EvidencePortal]

Happening Tomorrow @ICED_LSHTM webinar https://t.co/l13fjpLbjZ Tues 6 Dec 11am GMT Chaired @xanthehunt one of the @EvidencePortal creators & discover why decision makers must visit it they want to find out works in disability inclusive development in LMICs #ZeroCall23!

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

Beginning a few days highlighting our learning on #DisabilityInclusion

Today we are highlighting a study on social protection

Huge thanks to our programme partners @ICED_LSHTM

More tomorrow...

#IDPWD2022 #IDPWD

[FCDO Research, Science and Technology @FCDOResearch]

Following on from #IDPWD, we are sharing evidence from @FCDOGovUK funded research

PENDA (Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action) is led by @ICED_LSHTM & today we are highlighting what they are learning about social Protection (SP) & people with disabilities

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[GAGE programme @GAGE_programme]

Following #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisability we explore the intersecting role of #gender, #disability and #poverty on adolescents’ educational access .

Read more here 👇https://t.co/geCbOwYFw5

#IDPWD #DisabilityInclusion #IDPWD2022

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

So proud of @GDIHub - opening their fantastic new research centre👏🏽 … can’t wait to visit!

Working with us, @InnovateFCDO @FCDOREDGCSD, on our @AssistTech2030 programme, to reach more people with the #AssistiveTech they so desperately need

@FCDOResearch @FCDOInclusive

[Global Disability Innovation Hub 💜 @GDIHub]

Yesterday Minister for Disabled People Tom Pursglove visited GDI Hub, to launch our new Research Lab at UCL East 👏

@VotePursglove #GDIHub #DisabilityInnovation #AssistiveTech #Innovation #Disability #Tech #AT

[London Legacy Development Corporation @LondonLegacy]

Yesterday, Minister for Disabled People @VotePursglove visited @noordinarypark for the official opening of the @GDIHub's new research lab at @UCLEast

Find out more about the pioneering work of GDI Hub in driving disability innovation here: https://t.co/52DWAms8uY

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

Huge congratulations to the ⁦@GDIHub⁩ on your new research centre!

Great news coverage 👏🏽❤️😃

⁦@VickiAustinGDI⁩ ⁦⁦@cathyholloway1⁩

Minister for Disabled People on employment: 'We can do better' https://t.co/o39dwetL44

[Global Disability Innovation Hub 💜 @GDIHub]

Today's the day - register now to join the launch or sign up to the first module of the training 👇

Proud that TAP has been supported by our AT2030 programme, funded by UK aid.

[GATE #ATChangesLives @GATE_AT_World]

As part of tomorrow's launch of @WHO Training in Assistive Products, the first ever massive open online course #MOOC, Introduction to Assistive Products will OPEN for 2️⃣ weeks!

➡️ Register for the launch & MOOC now!
#ATChangesLives #TAPforAT

https://t.co/Apt8UP648U

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

‘Design with all concerned not just for a section of the population’
Suparna Biswas, Exec Director Kilimanjaro Blind Trust Assoc.

And here are Iain McKinnon (Director @GDIHub & lead on inclusive design) and I at the event in Nairobi

#InclusiveNairobi

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

Great to be able to introduce the launch of the ‘Inclusive Infrastructure Nairobi Case Study’ in person just now.
Fantastic turn out, looking forward to hearing the results and recommendations 👏🏽

#InclusiveNairobi @GDIHub

[Global Disability Innovation Hub 💜 @GDIHub]

Today we launch our latest Inclusive Infrastructure case study of #Nairobi

Join us digitally at 2pm ETA. 11am GMT: https://t.co/RsXPzQ6ERb

This case study is part of our UK aid funded AT2030 programme #InclusiveNairobi #InclusiveDesign #Accessibility #Disability #Kenya

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

📢Funding opportunity!

International networks for disability-inclusive global development

👉Grants to support research networking activities to explore the contributions that arts & humanities research can make to achieving disability inclusive sustainable global development

[Arts and Humanities Research Council @ahrcpress]

Apply for funding to explore the impact of arts and humanities research on disability-inclusive sustainable global development. Deadline to apply 22 September - https://t.co/CKNY5IVnkt

[The Missing Billion Initiative @_missingbillion]

Are you a person with a disability, a healthcare worker or a carer of a person with a disability?

Share your thoughts with us!

➡️ What are the most important actions or changes needed to improve healthcare outcomes for people with disabilities?

[Global Disability Innovation Hub 💜 @GDIHub]

TIDAL N+ Funding Call: Digital Design & Manufacturing & Physical Assistive Tech Devices​

➡️ Feasibility funding: £60K #grants @EPSRC​
➡️ Researchers inc. #ECRs +industry partners​
➡️ Agenda setting & collab workshops: 22 & 23 June​

https://t.co/zedIYOyQK5 #funding #research #AT

[Anne MacKinnon @annemackinnon1]

@tombromly Happy birthday 🥳