Ruth Gibbons

Ruth is a Sensory Anthropologist who works in different mediums to explore the experiences and expressions of people's everyday lives.  Ruth has been a lecturer for 9 years and is now developing a course to support Neurodivergent students at Uni (due out in Feb 2025) as well as other projects. Her work is multi-layered multi-media - including digital animation, sculpture, soundscapes, experimental film and digital collage an has used experimental research methods to understand peoples lived experiences. She was on the Sonia Gray series 'No Such Thing As Normal' discussing dyslexia based on her research.

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In 2024 Ruth won the 'Sam Taylor-Alexander Researcher Prize for Ethic's and Engagement within Anthropology' for her work in neurodivergence.

 

On leaving academia Ruth has become an entrepreneur creating an e-course to support neurodivergent students and empower them in the ways they think, as well as starting her companies Ponderables which has a research focus and Paradym.

 

There is so much pressure around reaching what are claimed are 'normal' goals and expectations in life but the reality is that there are valid different ways of being and these need to be celebrated.  Ruth draws on her research as an anthropologist to create and develop her companies.