Pete Donnelly

Pete Donnelly has spent the last decade working in programme management roles across several charities that focus on supporting disabled people, Pete realised that it was time to make a change to the lives of wheelchair users and founded his social enterprise, The Wheelchair Skills College, with the vision that every wheelchair user should have access to learn essential wheelchair skills, believing that filling this current gap is more than a ‘nice to have’ service and is in fact a fundamental human right. With a focus on ensuring every person receives the appropriate training to use their wheelchair, Pete has explored how to share information using ICT to develop skills of the disabled community beyond the traditional route of in-person training. Pete has recently co-authored “Enhancing Manual Wheelchair Training through Immersive Visual Feedback”, a co-produced paper exploring innovative ways of using ICT to teach wheelchair skills.