Awards
CreaTech 100: 100 Ones to Watch
2021. Awarded by: Creative Industries Council.
Dr Jacob Bolotin Award
2019. Awarded by: National Federation of the Blind.
Touch of Genius Prize
2018. Awarded by: National Braille Press.
Inventor Prize Recognition Award
2018. Awarded by: NESTA, BEIS HMG.
Deutscher Ebook Award
2017. Awarded by: Deutscher Ebook Award, Frankfurt Bookfair.
Tech4Good Accessibility Award
2017. Awarded by: AbilityNet.
Social Entrepreneurs Innovation Award
2016. Awarded by: PWC.
Stephen Lloyd Award
2016. Awarded by: Bates Wells Foundation.
Commissions and projects
The Braille Arcade (ongoing)
2022–. Partners: Company of Entrepreneurs, Briars Group.
Canute 360: Batch 4 (ongoing)
2022–. Partners: Philtronics; Company of Entrepreneurs, Briars Group.
Canutes for publishing and Computer Science (ongoing)
2021–. Partners: InnovateUK and Ufi (Computer Science), UWE (publishing); Braillists Foundation.
Canute 360: Batch 3
2021. Partners: Philtronics; AT Guys, Techno-Vision, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, Quantum, American Thermoform; National Federation of the Blind, American Action Fund, UnLtd Inclusive Recovery Fund, Resonance.
Braille equipment and lessons with the Braillists (ongoing)
2020–. Run by: The Braillists Foundation. Partners: BBT, the Churchill Fellowship (nee Winston Churchill Memorial Trust), Aviva, Worth Trust.
Canute 360: Batch 2
2019–20. Partners: Philtronics; AT Guys, Techno-Vision, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, American Thermoform, National Braille Press, APH, ChildVision; Thomas Pocklington Trust, Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust, Helianthus CT, Ulverscroft, Woodroffe Benton, William Cadbury.
Canute 360: Trials
2019. Partners: Philtronics; CNIB, APH, NFB, AAF; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.
‘Around India with a Canute’
2017. Run by: Ed Rogers. Partners: BBT, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Canute prototyping and trials: Mk8–13
2016–19. Clovernook, APH; Esmee Fairbairn, Resonance; REACH, John James Bristol Trust, NESTA, Business West, Comic Relief, PWC Foundation, Arup, Santander, BWB Charitable Inc, SW Manufacturing Advisory Service, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Merchant Venturers, Company of Information Technologists; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.
Canute prototyping and trials: Mk5–7
2014–15. Partners: Information Technologists, Nominet Trust, Innovation4Growth, School for Social Entrepreneurs, Product Development Centre; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.
Midas
2014. Partners: Braillists Foundation.
The Braillists Foundation (ongoing)
2014–. Partners: Braillists Foundation.
Canute prototypes: Mk1–4
2012–14. Partners: School for Social Entrepreneurs, UnLtd, iNet Microelectronics, PM Studio; Bristol Hackspace.
Quixote
2010–12. Partners: PM Studio, Transforming Braille Group.
Open Braille display design collaborations (ongoing)
2008–. Partners: Vidya Vrikshah, numerous.
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