This research explores how hospital kitchen, laundry, and cleaning staff experience mandatory safety training. Through immersive fieldwork, the researcher found that current online modules are irrelevant and ineffective. Workers possess crucial experiential safety knowledge that training ignores. The project will co-design new, practical, worker-centred training to meaningfully improve workplace safety.

This research supports disabled authors writing children’s fiction by examining how to balance authenticity, responsibility, and wellbeing. Through writing a novel with disabled protagonists and interviewing other writers, the project develops techniques to help disabled authors navigate representation, protect their privacy, and promote accurate, empowering portrayals of disability.

This research analyses Urdu women’s magazines and interviews with readers to highlight how North Indian Muslim women use popular literature to express identity, debate social issues, and build community. By recognising these magazines as meaningful cultural archives, the project challenges stereotypes and restores Muslim women’s voices to the centre of academic discourse.