Fellow's Profile
Fellow's Profile
Accessible Journeys: Learning Global Best Practices for Inclusive Travel
Creating innovative solutions that facilitate ease in travel for people with accessibility needs
2025
London
I'm an award-winning creative and disability consultant working at the intersection of innovation, inclusion and design. I specialise in creating tangible, impactful solutions that centre disabled and chronically ill people, partnering with creative teams to embed disability justice and universal design principles into both their work and culture.
I'm exploring an often overlooked area of accessibility: travel and transport. In 2023, Britons made over 1.2 billion domestic day trips - yet many disabled travellers, including myself, continue to face major barriers when trying to navigate the UK's travel systems. Motivated by my own experiences as a disabled traveller, I'll be researching inclusive transport solutions in Singapore and Australia, where universal design principles have been more fully integrated. I hope to bring back learnings and inspiration to help reimagine what travel freedom could look like - where journeys are accessible, joyful and equitable for all.
Ananya (CF 2025) spoke at the Singapore University of Technology and Design on accessible systems, sharing insights from her Churchill Fellowship research on how accessibility is experienced and applied in practice, including in AI systems used by vulnerable populations.
By Ananya Rao-Middleton, 23 April 2026
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Ananya (CF 2025) spoke at the Singapore University of Technology and Design on accessible systems, sharing insights from her Churchill Fellowship research on how accessibility is experienced and applied in practice, including in AI systems used by vulnerable populations.
By Ananya Rao-Middleton, 23 April 2026
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
