NRWU · No Longer Researching About Us Without Us
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2006-03-06 → 2007-11-05
- EU contribution
- €222,649
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- IIF
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - NRWU (No Longer Researching About Us Without Us)
In this research project people with intellectual disabilities were encouraged to become co-researchers in a process where they had control over the research agenda, including research topics and how data would be collected and interpreted. Seven projects were completed using an inclusive research approach throughout Ireland. For each project, whether it was documenting how people with intellectual disabilities were running a local coffee shop or how students at Trinity College with intellectual disabilities explored what it was like to be a Trinity student, the focus of the research was on people with intellectual disabilities gaining ownership over the process. The outcomes of the project demonstrated how people with intellectual disabilities could take control of the research agenda living up to the title of the project which was 'no researching about us without us'. This project showed that people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland had much to teach other groups in other parts of the world. A group of project researchers presented a poster presentation on anti-bullying strategies at the IASSID congress on intellectual disabilities in Cape Town in 2008. They won a prize for the best research poster competing against traditional researchers internationally.
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Project objective
As a research project 'Nothing about us without us' is based on the values of belonging, equality, and respect. These values are at the core of the concept of equal opportunity and full participation of people with learning disabilities in their quest for inclusive lives. The project responds to the criticism made by members of disabled groups that in the past research has succeeded in doing things to people with disabilities rather than including them in the setting of the research agenda.This latter approach has been described by the Incoming International Fellow as inclusive research. This project has four main aims and will work in an inclusive/participatory manner with a group of 15 participants with learning disabilities and five without as well as a reference group of interested stakeholders. The four stages of the project will cover participants undertaking a professional development course on inclusive research that leads to accessible outcomes for all involved; then implementing inclusive re search projects focussed upon the participants lives, such as, oral histories; followed by implementing inclusive research projects in collaboration with local agencies and community groups within Ireland; and finally setting up inclusive research networks between Ireland and across the European Union.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- THE PROVOST, FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, NEAR DUBLIN (HEREINAFTER CALLED TCD) · DUBLINCoordinatorCity levelIreland
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