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Disability research by disabled and non-disabled people: towards a rational methodology of research production
- Authors:
- TREGASKIS Claire, GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(5), December 2005, pp.363-374.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores some of the problems and opportunities that may derive from the development of working relationships between disabled and non-disabled researchers. First a number of key barriers that face disabled researchers from the outset of research are sketched out. In seeking to identify good research practice that can challenge such barriers, it is suggested that enabling modes of research production may often be uncovered through a careful examination of the working relationships between members of research teams. This approach is illustrated through a discussion of a range of relational issues that have impacted upon the authors’ own research partnership: (i) Relating in research: Tackling fears and issues around self-disclosure; (ii) Psychoanalytic sensitivity: Privileging ontological experience and reflexivity; (iii) Towards a feminist ethics of care: Challenging methodological individualism; and (iv) Interdependence in research: towards enriched analysis. In terms of advancing an agenda for inclusive disability research, it is believed that making explicit the complexity of disabled/non-disabled research relationships like this is one practical way in which general assumptions of a binary disabled/non-disabled split may be challenged, whilst simultaneously recognizing that equitable working partnerships can only derive from the equal valuing of difference.
Epistemological journeys in participatory action research: alliances between community psychology and disability studies
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, LAWTHOM Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(2), March 2005, pp.135-151.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper seeks to explore emancipatory disability research possibilities through the use of participatory action research and the cross-fertilisation of ideas between British disability studies (DS) and community psychology (CP). First, the authors consider the psychology in CP and suggest that it is far removed from mainstream psychology's pathological vision of disabled people. Second, they draw on Burrell and Morgan's model of paradigms to interrogate research practice in DS and CP. Third, they compare and contrast research narratives from DS and CP through reference to some examples of our own research. They argue that CP pays particular attention to the development of community selves and cultural identities within the participatory action research process: which the authors feel to be a key concern for the development of an emancipatory DS. Finally they conclude that recognising the radical humanist element of participatory action research (PAR) permits us to navigate an enabling journey for disability research.