Welcome to ID Inclusion
Samantha Morgan, BSc (Hons), GMBPsS
Inclusion & Impact Consultant | Creator of the ACB Framework | Published Writer | Policy Reformer
Worked Across:
- Higher Education
- Social Housing Committee Work
- Rehabilitation – mental health, brain injury and criminal justice.
- UK Charities
Samantha Morgan is a specialist lived-experience inclusion and impact consultant whose work creates meaningful, measurable change across sectors. She combines lived experience, critical psychology, practitioner insight, and clear communication to help organisations understand and address the real-world barriers that people face when accessing employment, services, education and support.
She is the creator of the Against Complex Barriers (ACB) Framework (Morgan, 2025) – a conceptual model that exposes how intersectional, overlapping barriers, such as disability, neurodivergence, chronic pain, trauma, poverty, sensory overwhelm, and instability, shape outcomes. Her work challenges simplified narratives and provides organisations with a deeper, more human understanding of what inclusion really requires.
Samantha’s impact includes initiating an institution-wide policy reform at a UK university. Her advocacy and insight led to the university reshaping financial support systems, making education more accessible for thousands of previously excluded students.
Her writing and presentations have been described as work that “should be shown to every staff member in the organisation” due to their clarity, depth and ability to reveal barriers that are often invisible.
She is published in The Psychologist (BPS), featured by the Open University, and will appear in Times Higher Education discussing systemic inequalities in higher education. She works across higher education, social housing, and the charity sector, offering rare cross-contextual insight.
into the realities of navigating environments that may not be designed for complex, intersecting needs.
Our value
⭐ What Makes Samanthas Work Different
Many consultants offer training on neurodivergence and disability.
Samantha’s work goes significantly further and combines intersectional approaches:
- lived experience
- critical psychology grounding
- practitioner expertise (brain injury, justice, higher education, social housing committee, mentoring)
- policy-level understanding
- The ACB Framework (Morgan, 2025)
- accessible communication and writing
- cross-sector practice in HE, housing and charity
Samantha's integrated approach does not focus on labels and prescriptive strategies to support simply neurodivergence (as an example). Instead, she highlights how the duality of the social–individual interface creates barriers that organisations can reduce, helping people to thrive. Samantha helps organisations understand complexity - and create change that lasts.
⭐ Impact at a Glance:
- Initiated and influenced major policy reform at a UK university, affecting thousands
- Published in Times Higher Education
- Creator of the ACB Framework, influencing thinking across multiple sectors
- Undergraduate research featured in The Psychic News, published by the very community the research sought to empower.
- Published as an undergraduate in The Psychologist on power, marginalisation and lived experience
- Developed lived-experience resources used by Open University tutors
- Delivered talks at national events and conferences
- Lived-experience advisor across sectors; housing, charity and education
- Known for powerful communication that shifts staff understanding
⭐ The ACB Framework (Morgan, 2025)
The ACB Framework is a lived-experience-driven, practitioner-informed conceptual model that challenges traditional, single-label approaches.
Instead of practitioner-defined categories, ACB centres self-defined, flexible, real-life barriers, enabling more accurate understanding and support.
The framework draws on:
• the Social Model of Disability
• intersectionality
• Samantha’s proposed concept Stimuli Goodness of Fit (Morgan, 2025) – understanding how sensory, cognitive, social and environmental stimuli support or obstruct someone’s ability to thrive.
Read the full ACB conceptual preprint on Figshare (Morgan, 2025)
The ACB Framework, PETALS concept, associated diagrams and Stimuli Goodness of Fit are licensed. Adaptation or training use requires written permission. Academic citation permitted.
⭐ Why This Work Is Needed
Many barriers people face are invisible – but the impact is reflected in national data:
- Disabled people are 30% less likely to be employed (ONS, 2022)
- 77% of autistic adults want work; only 30% are employed
- Nearly half of autistic adults experience harm at work (Nicholls, 2025)
- Disabled adults are three times more likely to hold no qualifications
- Autistic graduates are twice as likely to be unemployed
These outcomes do not reflect individual capability.
They reflect systems designed without complexity in mind.
ACB highlights how disability, neurodivergence, chronic pain, trauma, poverty, sensory overwhelm and instability overlap – and why standard approaches often fail.
When complexity is ignored, people fall through gaps.
When it is recognised, people thrive.
⭐ What I Offer
All work is grounded in lived experience, critical psychology and practitioner practice. I take a collaborative approach.
I currently offer:
- Lived-experience talks, workshops & discussions on understanding intersecting barriers, reducing barriers and supporting improved outcomes
- Consultancy (short-term or retainer-based)
- Advisory board & committee roles
- Policy and practice reviews (ACB-informed)
- Case studies & reflective writing
- Accessibility and communication insight
My work supports organisations in understanding complexity, strengthening equity, and building human and inclusive practices.
⭐ Previous Work Includes
- Policy reform at a UK university
- Published writing in The Psychologist
- Consultancy and resource development for The Open University
- Housing-sector committee role
- National conference presentations
- Development of lived-experience learning materials for tutors and health professionals
- Reflective and insightful case studies used for funding bids for charities
Experience
⭐ I will only work with organisations that are keen to improve social justice and support better outcomes for minority groups. If this aligns with your values, let’s discuss how we can work together.
References
- Office for National Statistics. (2022). Outcomes for disabled people in the UK: 2021. [Online] Available at: Outcomes for disabled people in the UK – Office for National Statistics (Accessed 19/05/2025).
- Nicholls, T. (2025). Shrinking the autism employment gap: Finding out what really works. Autism, 29(3), 551-553. [Online] Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613241310926 (Accessed 19/05/2025).
