The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) is organising this course that may be interesting to the list subscribers.
Course: Doing research inclusively, doing research well
Course leaders: Professor Melanie Nind and Dr Hilra Vinha (University of Southampton)
Dates and place: 7-8 February 2013, Chilworth Manor, Southampton
Fees: £60 for UK registered postgraduate students; £120 for staff at UK academic institutions, ESRC funded researchers and registered charity organisations; £440 for all other participants.
Further info and register: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=3820
This training will extend the confidence and skills of researchers interested in inclusive, participatory or emancipatory research.
Working in more collaborative ways with lay people as co-researchers requires new ways of thinking, careful planning, and sensitive negotiation of the power dynamics surrounding not being in full control of the research agenda or process. The trainers build on their ESRC study looking at quality and capacity in inclusive research in which researchers outside and inside the academy, with and without a label of learning disabilities, came together in focus groups to discuss their research methods, priorities and working practices. The research generated guidance for judging quality in inclusive research with people with learning disabilities, together with practical guidance and case study materials for teaching which are used here. The trainers work from the position that it is unhelpful to limit ourselves to an uncritical ‘nothing about us without us’ agenda in which one way of doing inclusive research becomes prescribed and policed. Instead, there are many different models of inclusive research and much to be learned from exploring these.
Participants should expect an interactive/active experience based in the theories and methods of Paulo Freire; they will be using dialogue, seeing, reading, exploring and developing a range of methods that change the dynamics of knowledge production. The examples come from the field of learning disabilities but the methods have relevance for researchers in other fields and for anyone wishing to conduct their research in more inclusive ways without compromising on social science rigour.
For further information and to register please go to http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=3820
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