All Mark Pollock Blogs

The therapies that have the ability to make a difference are locked inside university labs or underfunded start-ups. Mark presented that problem to his colleagues in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders during an education module in Oxford along with his fiancée Simone George. The result was the formation of an initiative called the […]

On the Real Health podcast with Karl Henry, Mark explains how he applies Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea that ‘he who has a why to live can bear with almost any how’. Mark says: “If you know why you’re doing what you’re doing, then you can put up with the tough stuff. It sits over everything to […]

Mark joined Tom Edwards from Monocle on The Bulletin as part of his role as a UBS Global Visionary. In this 15 minute programme they discuss how Mark has built resilience and collaborated with others to go beyond blindness and raced to the South Pole in 1998. They talk more about Mark’s latest and arguably […]

Mark and his fiancée, human rights lawyer Simone George, spoke at TED2018 in Vancouver. They speak about how to resolve the tension between acceptance and hope, something they had to try and figure out in the aftermath of Mark’s catastrophic spinal cord injury. They talk about why climbing into the raging river of grief when […]

We launched an Exoskeleton Access Programme at Dublin City University. This programme to provide universal access to Ekso Bionics robotic legs for paralysed people, stroke patients, those with MS and other neurological conditions for a nominal fee.  

  I can’t step onto a weighing scales at home anymore. Instead, I travel to the National Rehabilitation Hospital and roll onto a weighbridge in my wheelchair. Like an HGV driver being inspected at customs, I am pausing temporarily on my way to another place. My destination is 79 kgs (12.5 stone) by the end […]