Celebrating Thirty Years of Inclusive Research

Danielle Garratt, Kelley Johnson (), Amanda Millear, Shaun Picken, Janice Slattery and Jan Walmsley
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Danielle Garratt: Speak Out Brighton & Hove, Brighton BN1 1YD, UK
Kelley Johnson: Social Policy Research Centre, Deakin University, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Amanda Millear: Reinforce Self Advocacy, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Shaun Picken: My Life My Choice, Oxford OX4 6NF, UK
Janice Slattery: Reinforce Self Advocacy, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Jan Walmsley: Social History of Learning Disability, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-14

Abstract: Inclusive research has been an important way of increasing the understanding of the lives and issues of people with intellectual (learning) disabilities for 30 years. Three authors of this paper, Amanda, J and Kelley, are Australian and have been conducting inclusive research for much of this time. The other three, Danielle, Shaun and Jan, are English. Jan has been doing it for a long time, while the others are relatively new to it. In this paper, we explore together what inclusive research has achieved in its original aims of supporting people with intellectual (learning) disabilities to have a heard voice and in working towards changing attitudes, policies and practices in relation to supporting them to lead good lives. Fundamental to achieving these aims was the need for active participation by people with intellectual (learning) disabilities in conducting research relevant to them. We record what we have done, how we did it and why it was important to do this work together. We focus on what inclusive research has meant to us and how it has been used to get positive change for people with intellectual disabilities. We end with a summary of what we think inclusive research can achieve and where we think it needs to go next.

Keywords: inclusive; research; learning/intellectual disability; impact; life history; rights; community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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