Presentation by Melanie Nind at the fourth ESRC funded seminar on participatory research with people with learning disabilities

1. Exchanging notes:
Where has
inclusive research
got to?Melanie Nind M.A.Nind@soton.ac.uk
Seminar series #4 10 April 2014, Open University

2. Who does inclusive research?
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3. Do we exchange notes?
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4. Sharing our learning
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5. Sharing our learning
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6. What have we achieved?
• Lots of examples
• Government recognition
• Talk about rights
• New alliances
• New methods
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7. Bead method (Ayrton)
I developed a method of
beads strung on a
leather cord to enable
participants to
construct their stories
about their lives and
experiences of health
care. Each participant
made a bracelet that
they could keep as a
concrete reflective
product.
http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/2923/1/Methods
NewsWinter2012.pdf
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8. What have we achieved?
• Interest in what difference it
makes to do research
inclusively
• Interest in costs and benefits
• Message about social inclusion
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9. What have we achieved?
• Funding
• Being authors, reviewers, advisors,
teachers
• Lots of know-how
• Some know-what
• New labels!
• Celebratory narrative
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10. What are the challenges ahead?
• More dialogue
• Shared language
• Second generation
inclusive research –
knowledge focus
• New spaces
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