Lydia Wilkins
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Lydia Wilkins
Lydia Wilkins is an award winning freelance journalist who specialises in disability and social inequality issues. Her work has appeared in publications such as Refinery 29, The Metro, The Independent, Insider, The Daily Mail, PosAbility Magazine, Readers Digest, The Mid Sussex Times, The Brighton Seagull and Tiimo. She was a recipient of the Journalism Diversity Fund (JDF) for the academic year 2017/18. Her journalism has ranged from covering the publication of the landmark report the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel which called the Metropolitan Police “institutionally corrupt”, to exploring the rise of adaptive fashion.
As a speaker Lydia has worked with a variety of organisations – including Naidex, Bath Spa University, Suffolk University, the Women’s Podcast Festival, SIC, King’s College London, the Crown Estate, and others. This has ranged from lectures on how to freelance and how to go into investigative journalism, to the need for disability representation and why food education for all matters. She was also a model in the September 2023 show on behalf of Unhidden for Kurt Geiger, as part of London Fashion Week.
Lydia serves as an ambassador to AccessAble, the largest provider of disability accessibility information in the UK. This has involved public speaking, presenting on camera, mobile video production, and more. She also created and edited their in-house mailing lists, as well as commissioning others to write for her. In her spare time, she also writes her own Substack newsletter.
Lydia is currently the editor in chief of Disability Review Magazine, the largest disability magazine title in the UK. She is also working on her second book, with the provisional title of Criminally Misunderstood.
Lydia will be chairing a discussion around disability in podcasting titled Beyond Awareness alongside Deeivya Meir and Brooke-Jade Millhouse.