More than 30 years experience of qualitative research with disabled people, including disabled childhood; disability and sexuality; disability and social care/independent living; rights-based rehabilitation; global disability. Spent five. years at WHO and was co-author of (2011) World Report on Disability. Worked at Sunderland, Leeds, Newcastle and University of East Anglia before arriving at LSHTM. A disabled person, parent of two disabled children and one disabled granddaughter.