Christine is a disability and age-inclusive researcher, designer, and innovator.  She founded and leads Open Inclusion, based in the UK and operating globally. Open provides market-leading disability and age-inclusive research to inform better design and innovation that can deliver greater social and business value. They produce high-quality, practical, diverse, and authentically human insights. Open has worked with governments, Fortune 500 organizations, FTSE 100 organizations, academia, NGOs, accelerators and entrepreneurial start-ups. Open helps their clients across a range of channels (digital, build environment, physical products, customer services and branding and communications) leverage inclusive design, emerging technologies and disability and age-informed approaches to identify, design and deliver more valuable and sustainable human-aligned solutions.

Christine is a Certified Member of the Market Research Society (MRS), a Certified Professional in Accessibility (CPACC) with the IAAP and currently chairs MRS Unlimited, the disability-inclusive research sector MRS group. She is an Ambassador for Co-Innovate at Brunel University and a past leader and ongoing active member of the Inclusive Design for XR group at XRAccess and member of the initial strategy team. She is also a proud member of the Global Accessibility and Inclusion Leaders group (GAILs) where she had the privilege to first meet Jamie!