What makes a good self-advocacy project? The added value of co-production |
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Authors: | A Armstrong M Cansdale A R Collis B E Collis S Rice |
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Institution: | Faculty of Health, Education and Well Being, Barod Community Interest Company, Carmarthen, UK |
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Abstract: | AbstractThis article describes how two self-advocates worked with two academics and others to produce a toolkit to help self-advocacy groups run better projects. We begin by explaining why this research needed doing and how we carried out the research. We then talk about what co-produced research means to us and how we think it is different from participatory or inclusive research. We discuss whether the research and this article were co-produced. We finish by looking at why we think co-production added value to this research. Our aim with this article is to help activists and academics work together to achieve two things: good-quality research findings; and big differences to disabled people’s lives. |
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Keywords: | co-production intellectual disability inclusive research participatory research organisational research self-advocacy People First |
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