Alice
Thanks for clering that up. Good luck with your research, but I still prefer
'doing', 'sending' and 'reading' 'real-life' qualitative research. ;- )
Take Care
Colin R
>From: "Alice Maynard" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'Colin REvell'"
><[log in to unmask]>,<[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: Quantitative research- Who needs it????
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:05:10 -0000
>
>Hello Colin
>Don't take THIS the wrong way either, but have you ever thought of finding
>out exactly what someone is doing before writing it off?
>The research I'm doing is to ensure that disabled people's needs - and
>sorry, but in the counting angels on a pinhead manner of doctoral research,
>at the moment it's physical impairment principally - are accounted for in
>the existing methods of planning for environmental improvements
>(specifically in the transport environment). The transport literature is
>heaving with qualitative research on the needs of disabled people, but the
>transport industry is heaving with engineers and numbers people, and the
>two
>don't mix all that well. I would love to change the universe and
>revolutionise the way that economic planning oppresses disabled people (and
>society in general) and perhaps when I'm over this current hurdle I could
>join with others trying to do that very thing - indeed, in other ways I
>trust I'm already doing it. Sure, I guess this means I AM colluding with
>oppression. However, as a natural practitioner rather than an academic, I
>am acutely aware that while we're waiting for the great day when oppression
>is no more, major decisions that affect disabled people's lives NOW are
>being based on misleading information that doesn't reflect the qualitative
>research that's already out there. So I can live with a little collusion
>(which I prefer to think of as manipulating an oppressive system) if it
>means real change happens, provided we are clear that's what's going on -
>and believe me, I'm very clear.
>So - to answer your question - I think WE need it (I certainly do) - but we
>also need the radical stuff.
>Alice
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Colin REvell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 09 January 2007 11:31
>To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: Quantitative research- Who needs it????
>
>Alice
>
>Don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever thought that
>'quantitative-research' on disabled peoples life's will never create the
>effective changes that are needed within all systems and structures and
>this
>
>methodology rienforces 'Disablism' against all disabled people and those
>NeuroDiverse too and is an oppressive tool that's tatically subversive and
>is used as an abusive weapon that is used against all Disabled and
>NeuroDiverse people to keep the 'status-quo' of 'inequalities' and all
>forms
>
>of oppression against 'us' .
>
>What about doing 'qualitative' research which empowers Disabled and
>NeuroDiverse people and IMO is more effective in challenging the
>'Disablist'
>
>comments, attitudes and behaviours and structaural and systematic 'Fascism'
>and 'Barriers' that you can't measure through 'quantitaive' models, can
>you?
>
>IMO that most research in being manipulated and money is being wasted which
>needs to be spent on 'services' that are going to change all Disabled and
>NeuroDiverse peoples' 'quality-of-lifes' and 'equality-of-opportunities'.
>
>The 'Lifecousrse' methods of 'actively-listenting to 'real-stories' from
>all
>
>Disabled and NeuroDiverse people need to be more valued within all research
>and until it is then NeuroDiverse Disabled People like myself and others
>will continue to live daily with the continued
>'Institutionalised-Disablism/NeuroTypicalism' that violates 'our' basic
>human rights and civil liberities.
>
>We all need sto 'STOP' 'alking the talk' and together start
>'waking-the-walk' if 'we' are ever going to make effective changes within
>all systems and structures tha keep us oppressed and 'silence-our-voices',
>as you read within my own case.
>
>These are the 'real' true facts, that all Disabled and NeuroDiverse
>Disabled
>
>People have continued to 'voice', but who ever listens and how much does it
>cost to 'actively-listen'?
>
>What does this say about 'Nothing About Us, Without Us'.... If you
>'speak-out' as a politicised NeuroDiverse Professional 'Crip', then the any
>rewards you recieve is an 'injunction' for doing so.
>
>What does this say about 'Justice'?
>
>Yours
>
>Colin Revell
>
>
> >From: Alice Maynard <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Alice Maynard <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Quantitative research
> >Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:25:13 +0000
> >
> >I am doing some quantitative research (stated preference) using a social
> >model framework for analysis, and I have been looking for other quant
> >research from a social model perspective, but not having much success
> >finding any. Does anyone know of any quant research not written up in
> >Disability & Society (I've searched that) that I might be missing?
> >Would be very grateful for any pointers.
> >Many thanks,
> >Alice
> >
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