Louise Hickman

lh761 (@) cam.ac.uk

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Louise Hickman is a Wellcome Early Career Fellow, leading the project "Algorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability‑Led Health Technology Design" at the University of Cambridge. She is also a research associate with the Minderoo Centre of Technology and Democracy. Her research draws on critical disability studies, feminist labour studies, and science and technology studies to examine the historical and sociotechnical conditions of access work—particularly how access is produced and mediated through human labour, assistive systems, and economic structures.

Previously, she was a Senior Research Officer at the London School of Economics and contributed to the Ada Lovelace Institute’s JUST‑AI Network on Data and AI Ethics. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego.