DAY 1 • TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER • 16.45 – 17.30
Designing neuroinclusive end-to-end journeys: From access to action
Transport systems shape how people move through daily life. They affect whether people can reach work, education, healthcare, culture, public services and each other. When transport environments are difficult to understand, overwhelming, unreliable or inaccessible, people are not only delayed – they can be excluded.
This panel, chaired by Georgia Collard-Watson, Associate Principal at Grimshaw, will explore how the transport sector can design and deliver more neuroinclusive and equitable journeys.
The conversation will focus on real-world action: what needs to change, who needs to be involved, and how the sector can build trust, accountability and momentum.
As Eman Rimawi-Doster (Senior organizer, Disability Justice, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest) powerfully stated during the Urban Design Forum’s keynote on Mobility in NYC: “If we all have accessibility, that means we all have access.” This panel takes that principle as a starting point for rethinking transport environments as places of dignity, independence and belonging.
Georgia Collard-Watson (Moderator) Associate Principal at Grimshaw, Co-Author of the Architects’ Neurodiversity Toolkit
Stephanie Kyle, Associate at Floyd Slaski Architects, Architect and Inclusive Design Consultant
Adam Sergent, Systems Support Manager at Network Rail, Founder and Chair of Neurodiversity in Transport Centre (NTCoE)
Kimberley Harding, Senior Human Factors Engineer at WSP, Co-Chair of Rail Industry Neuroinclusive Community (RINC), Doctoral Researcher in neurodiversity and passenger experience in railways at Durham University
Georgia Collard-Watson
Georgia Collard-Watson is an Associate Principal at the international architecture practice Grimshaw, where she leads projects across the practice’s transport and transit-oriented development portfolio. Her recent work includes Dublin MetroLink for Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the award-winning Waterloo Station Masterplan for Lambeth Council and Network Rail.
Georgia also leads Grimshaw’s Health and Wellbeing teams and founded the practice’s Accessibility and Neurodiversity Network. She co-authored the Architects’ Neurodiversity Toolkit as co-chair of the Architects’ Mental Wellbeing Forum, developed in collaboration with Jean Hewitt, technical author of PAS 6463: Design for the Mind, and Luisa Luisa Pereira Pires, director of the Neurodiversity Architecture Network CIC.
Chairing the ‘Equity in Transit’ panel, Georgia brings together her experience in major transport infrastructure with her advocacy for neuroinclusive, accessible and equitable design.
Stephanie Kyle
Stephanie is an Associate Architect and Inclusive Design Consultant at Floyd Slaski Architects, and the AJ100 Changemaker Award winner for her passion for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the profession.
She teaches at the University of Nottingham, and writes neurodiversity design guidance used internationally. Her architectural work draws on lived experience, University research and focuses on neuro-inclusive design.
Adam Sergent
Adam runs Neurodiversity in Transport in which is an industry working group that supports neurodivergent employees and passengers covering all modes of transport in the UK. Its aim is to help make our transport systems neuroinclusive to all by being a supportive ally, sharing best practices from one mode to another as well as providing an informal and safe space for neurodivergent staff, passengers, and related external organisations.
Kimberley Harding
Kimberley Harding is a Senior Human Factors Engineer, Chartered Ergonomist, and doctoral researcher whose career sits at the intersection of engineering, psychology, systems thinking, and inclusive design. Starting her career in rail engineering at the age of fifteen, Kimberley has worked across disciplines ranging from systems safety and infrastructure design to passenger experience, neuro-inclusion, and education.
Alongside her role at WSP, she is completing a PhD at Durham University exploring cognitive ergonomics and neurodiversity in transport environments. She also co-chairs the Rail Industry Neuro-Inclusive Community (RINC), teaches internationally and hosts inter-institutional events showcasing best practice in all disciplines of engineering and ergonomics.
Through her research, industry leadership, teaching, and design work, Kimberley is passionate about turning inclusion from an aspiration into something measurable, buildable, and embedded within everyday engineering practice.