Dr Hamied Haroon, Jacquie Nicholson and Stuart Moore are Co-Directors of NADSN

Dr Hamied Haroon
Hamied is a proud life-long Disabled Mancunian of Pakistani heritage, a husband and father of two. Hamied works at The University of Manchester where he gained his PhD in 2005 and helped to establish the University’s Disabled Staff Network in 2007 becoming its first Chair. He is currently a Senior Technical Specialist and Research Fellow in MRI Physics and in 2026 was appointed as the University’s Academic Lead for EDI Disability.
Hamied delivered the Annual Disability Lectures at the University of Cambridge in 2018 and the University of Oxford in 2021. He has served on the Royal Society’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee since 2021 and on the Snowdon Trust’s Masters Scholarships Selection Panel since 2023. He was also a Judge for the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 2021-2024 and the Nature Awards for Inclusive Health Research 2022-2024. In July 2025, Hamied was presented with The University of Manchester President’s first ever General Distinguished Achievement Award and Christabel Pankhurst Medal. Later in 2026, Hamied will feature in a new children’s book called “Scientists Making a Difference”!

Jacquie Nicholson
Jacquie is a Disabled Scottish campaigner and activist who has worked in mental health in the third sector and higher education for over 30 years. While working at the University of Edinburgh she helped to establish The University’s Disabled Staff Network becoming its first Convenor.
Jacquie is currently an Associate Lecturer at the Open University teaching on the Undergraduate Nursing Degree. She has contributed to books, articles, research and conferences centring disabled people’s voices, shaping inclusive policies in the UK higher education sector and internationally. She currently Chairs the International Research Advisory Board for Disability Matters, a 6 year pan-national programme of disability, health and science research led by University of Sheffield. Jacquie is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Stuart Moore
Stuart is a specialist in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), with experience across the public sector. His career includes roles at the Cabinet Office and the Equality Challenge Unit, which established his expertise in organisational culture, workforce equality and policy development, laying the foundation for his later leadership positions.
At Health Education England, Stuart provided strategic leadership on embedding inclusive practices across education and workforce policies policy. In 2019, Stuart joined NHS England as lead for the NHS Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES), providing leadership to advance disability inclusion across the NHS workforce. He later became regional head of equality for the South-East.
Stuart is now an independent consultant (for the University of Greenwich), a Board member of Triple C (which supports disabled and neurodivergent people in the creative industries), and an adviser to the Global Disability Mirror initiative. Stuart is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners.