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May I express my full concurrence to Jenny's thoughts. Lauro Original message: > Hi Steve, > I do hope you haven’t been too discouraged by some of the responses to > your email. Your research sounds interesting and potentially useful to > disabled people and I do hope you find the necessary number of > respondents. My only comment is that I wondered whether you might at > the same time gather information about the impact on PA users/disabled > employers of changes to their level of funding as a result of both the > abolition of the ILF (in England) and tightening up of eligible needs > by local authorities.I realise your research questions are concerned > with more fundamental issues but the context in terms of funding will > undoubtedly impact on some people’s autonomy and relationships between > PAs and employers. In any event, any information you gather re impact > of changes in funding will be of considerable interest to disability > activists. Tom Shakespeare (whose research at UEA I’m sure you’re > aware of) has for this reason added on some questions re impact of > abolition of the ILF to his research project. > Sorry if this suggestion is too much at odds with your research > questions but we need all the information we can get about the impact > of closure of the ILF and cuts to social care funding! > Jenny > On 8 Mar 2015, at 14:26, Steven Graby <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Hello all >> I am a PhD student in the Centre for Disability Studies at the >> University of Leeds, and I am looking for people interested in taking >> part in my PhD research about personal assistance for disabled people. >> I want to interview two groups of people: >> - disabled people who employ or have employed personal assistants (PAs); >> - and people who work or have worked as PAs. >> I want to interview both groups of people about: >> - their experiences of employing, or working as, PAs; >> - their thoughts and opinions about personal assistance and how it >> works at present; >> - and if (and how) they think personal assistance could be changed for >> the better. >> Each interview will probably take around 1-2 hours (but can be split >> into shorter parts if necessary for accessibility reasons). I can >> either travel to meet you (within the UK) and interview you at a place >> of your choosing, or I can interview you by phone or Skype (audio or >> video call). >> If you would like to take part in this research, but you have access >> issues that would make any of these options difficult for you, please >> contact me and we can arrange an interview in a form that is >> accessible for you. >> For further information about my research, see my research website: >> https://sgraby.wordpress.com/my-research/ >> If you are interested in taking part in this research, please reply to >> this email or fill in the contact form on my website: >> https://sgraby.wordpress.com/contact-me/ >> If you have any concerns about this research, you can also contact my >> supervisors, Dr Alison Sheldon and Dr Simon Prideaux, at >> [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] >> If you know anyone else who you think may be interested in this >> research, please forward this email to them or give them the link to >> my website. >> Thanks in advance >> Steve Graby >> Postgraduate Research Student, Centre for Disability Studies, >> University of Leeds >> ________________End of message________________ >> This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for >> Disability Studies at the University of Leeds >> (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). >> Enquiries about list administration should be sent to >> [log in to unmask] >> Archives and tools are located at: >> www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html >> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. > ________________End of message________________ > This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for > Disability Studies at the University of Leeds > (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). > Enquiries about list administration should be sent to > [log in to unmask] > Archives and tools are located at: > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.