Aikaterini (Katrina) Tavoulari

Research Fellow

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My work is associated with BIG::Diverse.

Dr. Aikaterini (Katrina) Tavoulari is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, and a Chartered Disability Practitioner with the National Association of Disability Practitioners. She brings over 20 years of interdisciplinary clinical psychology experience, including leadership in specialist disability education in Greece, clinical work at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, and lecturing in disability studies, vision impairment, psychology, qualitative methodology, and business at University College London and Birmingham Business School. She has also collaborated with the Universities of Oxford and East London.

Katrina completed postdoctoral tenures at the University of Bath and King’s College London, and also served as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. In December 2025, she returned to the University of Bath to begin her NIHR DSE Fellowship, with placements in Computer Science at the University of Bristol and at King’s College London within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. Her fellowship focuses on advancing accessibility in vision impairment and depression, and on challenging ableism through participatory research.

Her community‑based work has been supported by GW4, the British Academy, and UNICEF, and she has collaborated with RNIB, Guide Dogs UK, Retina UK, Angel Eyes, and Research England. Research impact is central to her practice, both nationally (e.g., the “Goal for All” Goalball Event, 2024) and internationally (e.g., invited by the Association of Parents, Guardians & Friends of People with Autism ‘Anemoni’ and the Agrinio Medical Council in Greece to support the development of an anti‑ableist paediatric hospital environment, 2025).