Abstract
The concept of inclusive research epitomizes the transformation away from research on people, to research with them. Applied particularly, but not exclusively, in the field of learning disabilities, the concept encapsulates the drive to involve people in the design and conduct of research about them, reach and represent their lived experience, respect them and value different ways of knowing. This article discusses some of the challenges that UK inclusive researchers have shared in focus groups aimed at taking stock of this transformative movement and it shares how a local UK research collaboration between academics and people with learning disabilities has addressed some of these challenges. Inclusive research methods of generating and analysing data are examined within the broader context of how research projects and partnerships are enacted. The article concludes that doing research inclusively is gradually transforming through collective practical wisdom and praxis.
Highlights
I write this article from my perspective as an academic researcher, methodologist, educationalist and long-term advocate and collaborator working with people with learning disabilities
I begin by expanding on some of the key terms used in the article, before describing the research underpinning the argument I develop about where we have got to in inclusive research in the learning disability arena and what this means for inclusive research more widely
Jan Walmsley used it in her 2001 article and it was used more widely following the publication in 2003 of her book with Kelly Johnson, Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures
Summary
I write this article from my perspective as an academic researcher, methodologist, educationalist and long-term advocate and collaborator working with people with learning disabilities. These multiple roles and identities inform a discussion of the collective practical wisdom developing among researchers, with and without learning disabilities, who are doing research inclusively.
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