The company promotes research, publishes information and secures placements for students; it sustains both short-term and long-term residencies; it is both the object of study - particularly in the work it has pioneered with people on the autistic spectrum - and a guest representative at academic conferences worldwide. It is as engaged locally as it is internationally.

In all phases of its work Salamanda Tandem aims to encourage creativity in the belief that there is no better way to confront and begin to dismantle the social barriers associated with disability.