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Learning from experience: involving black disabled people in shaping services
- Authors:
- EVANS Rachel, BANTON Martin
- Publisher:
- Council of Disabled People
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 94p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leamington Spa
This report presents the findings of a one year research project, which explored one organisation's experiences in developing the involvement of black disabled people. Undertaken by the Council of Disabled People Warwickshire (CDP), and organisation run and controlled by disabled people, the aims of the research were to learning from CDP's experience to date by: examining definitions of involvement and exploring what involvement means for black people working in different ways with CDP; and reflect on what has and has not worked for CDP in developing the involvement of black disabled people.
Working with disabled people in consultation and research
- Authors:
- BARNES Di, KENDALL Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 19(1), 2001, pp.17-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
When a consultation exercise is designed with disabled people, the result will be influenced by all the participants' experience of consultation and their knowledge and understanding of research. The exercise will also be a product of particular place and time. These influences are explored in a case study carried out by the authors in partnerships with disabled people; they adopted a pluralistic and flexible approach to consultation, which gave information as well as sought it, and included a commitment to developing community skills with an eye on succession.
How research worked: the messages from the Family Fund Trust research project
- Authors:
- ROBERTS Keri, LAWTON Dot
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 13(4), 2001, pp.61-69.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The messages from the Family Fund Trust research project examined issues of key importance to families with a disabled child. Discusses the importance of involving service users in research and presents key findings and recommendations to arise from the project.
The ambiguous role of welfare structures in relation to the emergence of activism among disabled people: research evidence from Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- ACHESON Nicholas, WILLIAMSON Arthur
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.87-102.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The boundary between the disability movement and traditional forms of welfare production, whether in the statutory or voluntary sectors is discussed in this article. Drawing on the resource mobilization paradigm in social movement theory, it discusses the role played by existing welfare structures in the formation of disabled people as activists and in the initial stages of mobilization. The article reports on the findings of interviews with activists in the emerging disability movement in Northern Ireland, a region with a very low level of movement activity. It concludes that in such areas, disabled people often lack the resources to mobilize on their own account and are heavily dependent on formal welfare for the necessary networks and opportunities.
Involving children and young people with a chronic illness or physical disability in local decisions about health services development: phase one: report on national survey of health authorities and NHS trusts
- Authors:
- LIGHTFOOT Jane, SLOPER Patricia
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report describes the first phase of a research project funded by the Department of Health's Health in Partnership Initiative. The overall aim of the Initiative is to contribute to the knowledge base for lay involvement in health care decision making. This study is investigates the involvement of children and young people, in particular those who have a chronic illness or physical disability, since this is a growing group and includes heavy and long-term users of a wide range of health services. The focus of the research is on children's involvement in decision making about service development, as opposed to decisions about their own treatment, care and/or support.
From welfare to citizenship: participation and empowerment in disability organisations
- Author:
- ACHESON Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, November 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
This article looks at new research which examines the issues of participation and empowerment in organisations addressing disability. Asks how well-equipped service provider organisations are to promote citizenship and inclusion and whether voluntary organisations are changing to reflect the view that disabled people should acquire greater control over the services they use.
Developing an interactive approach in social work research: the example of a research study on head injury
- Author:
- HIGHAM P.E.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 31(2), April 2001, pp.197-212.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The paper examines the processes of a research project about the continuing care needs of head-injured people in order to illustrate an interactive approach in social work research. Influenced by the social work values of empowerment and working in partnership, the key function of the interactive approach include a multidisciplinary research team analysing the research topic through different disciplinary perspectives, and selecting research methods and dissemination strategies that promote interactive relationships amongst researchers, respondents and sponsors. Social work practice supplies transferable knowledge, values and skills for the interactive approach. The skill of negotiation is used to mitigate unequal distributions of power between researchers and respondents. The paper concludes that the interactive approach is a distinctive characteristic of social work research that deserves wider recognition.
Service users
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 11, April 2001, pp.58-60.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Reviews research which examines service users' involvement in, and their perspective on, service provision and policy and practice.
Normalisation emancipatory research and inclusive research in learning disability
- Author:
- WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(2), March 2001, pp.187-205.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article traces the influence of two major sets of ideas: normalisation/srv, and the social model of disability on inclusive research in learning disability. The argument is that normalisation set the agenda for learning disability research for two or more decades. Inclusive researchers continue to apply normalisation thinking to work with people with learning difficulties, particularly in assuming the role of advocate. Latterly, a number of researchers have tried to rise to the challenges posed by emancipatory research, particularly in attempting to find ways to put people with learning difficulties in control. Whilst some ideas from emancipatory research have been applied in learning disability, there are debates in the disability literature that have not been addressed in learning disability research to date. The result is that inclusive research in learning disability is in danger of being marginalised, both in the context of disability studies and in the context of the broad sweep of learning disability research.
Contesting practices, challenging codes: self advocacy, disability politics and the social model
- Author:
- DOWSE Leanne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.123-141.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper examines the relationship between Self Advocacy and the disability movement in Britain in the light of social movement theory. Using the concept of 'collective identity' as it is explored in social movement theory, the analysis examines why the disability movement's promotion of a strong disabled identity may be difficult to achieve for all its constituents, particularly people with learning difficulties. Additionally the concept of symbolic production within social movement theory is used to explore how the movement uses the social model of disability as its 'collective action frame'. It is argued realignment of this frame is taking place within the movement and is reflected in debates within disability studies about the role of impairment. The voices of people with learning difficulties remain silent in this debate. The paper concludes by arguing for the recognition of social, psychological and cognitive difference as pre-requisite to an inclusive theory and politics of disability.