Victoria Gerrard is a co-founder and current Lead of Opportunity Lab, an interdisciplinary collective of faculty and research staff seeking to enhance the way people design for social change. Victoria trained first as a Biomedical Engineer and then went on to study Development Management. Her current research focuses on understanding ‘participation’ in design with respect to design process, context and agency. As part of her research she is currently working with communities in Africa, Europe and South East Asia on various design projects.