Abstract
ABSTRACT Students with disabilities encounter challenges through higher education and into employment. Despite holistic disability paradigms, higher education institutions continue to view disability as a human quality, providing support services through a medical lens. Through participatory action research, students with disabilities, in collaboration with university researchers co-create an intervention to promote the voices of students with disabilities in higher education. This study explores and describes the co-creation processes. Data were generated through group discussions, mapping, shared analysis, and shared writing through digital and in-person workshops, and shared documents. A reflexive thematic analysis resulted in the generation of five themes; enabling participation and including all voices; sharing and relating to each other; shifting from being a problem to being discriminated; and translating experiences into actions. The fifth and overall theme is the transformation of co-creators’ understandings. The results indicate empowering processes of being awakened to discriminating structures and seeing own capabilities to make changes.
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