Willow Caroline Holloway

Willow Holloway is currently a Swansea University researcher and Community Council Advisor on the Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Autism: from menstruation to menopause’ project led by Dr Aimee Grant.

Willow has been involved in the Disability Rights Movements for many years and the Autistic Rights Movement for the last decade. She is a director and trustee of several Disabled Peoples Organisations including Disability Wales, Autistic UK and Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales as well as being a trustee of RASAC North Wales.

Willow’s interest lies in improving the wellbeing and quality of life for disabled and neurodivergent people and firmly believes in “Nothing About Us Without Us “and that community voices should be involved in all decisions that impact our lives.

Willow works with organisations across Wales to encourage and support co-production at all levels from national policy to local service design. She also supports research which includes the experiences of disabled and neurodivergent people.

Willow is a member of the Welsh Governments Disability Rights Taskforce and the Ministerial Advisory Group on Neurodivergence and acts as an advisor to The National Autism Team Wales. At a local level she co-chairs The North Wales Integrated Autism Service Strategy Board.