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Mary Wickenden
BMedSci MSc MSc PhD
Senior Research Fellow in Disability and Development
UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905 2193
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
m.wickenden@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Expertise:
Cultural aspects of
disability; children’s and
families of disability, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR); curriculum and
training issues in disability particular in low income settings, INGOs, qualitative research methods.
Biology: Mary is a medical anthropologist with special interests
in children and disability. She
has a previous clinical background as a speech and language therapist. She has been involved in a longterm
collaboration with the Department of Disability Studies at the University of
Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, as well as with disability focused NGOs there and in
India. She has worked on a variety
of projects related to
service development, curriculum and skills development in South Asia, the
Middle East and Uganda. Her PhD
was an ethnographic study of identity and the lifeworlds of disabled teenagers. Current research interests are in:
disabled children as participants in research, families experiences of
disability, disability and poverty, monitoring and evaluation of CBR, and the
role of INGOs in inclusive development.
