Emma Nichols has worked for Hft for 19 years. Initially she worked within the Social Work Department as PA to the Director of Service Development and later as the User Involvement Project Co-ordinator. In 2005 Emma became Project Co-ordinator for the TATE project (Through Assistive Technology to Employment) to research and development assistive technology for people with learning disabilities. Since the end of TATE in 2008, Emma has been responsible for building on the learning from the TATE project and now manages Hft’s Personalised Technology Team who implement the use of Personalised Technology with people with learning disabilities across the organisation. More recently the team has focused on using technology to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities, specifically looking at video consultation, electronic medication recording and self- reporting applications.
