Dear friends
I would like to draw your attention to the website of the EuRADE project (European Research Agendas for Disability Equality) hosted by the European Disability Forum, which represents organisations of disabled people within the policy structures of the EU and its associated countries.
http://www.eurade.eu/
The EuRADE project has been a research collaboration, in which representatives of DPOs in European countries have refelcted on their experiences of academic research and proposed their own priorities to influence the academic research agenda.
This has resulted in a significant amount of dissemination and lobbying by EDF in order to influence the funding priorities for research at the European level. We are increasingly optimistic that many of the ideas developed by DPOs are starting to influence those who are making decisions about future funding calls (e.g. in EU FP7), thereby focusing resources on research issues that make a difference to disabled people.
Some of the participants produced specific project outlines where they hope to find academic research collaborators to work with them towards funded research applications. They would welcome postive collaborations.
The project highlighted the great enthusiasm that DPOs have for reseach collaborations with academic/research institutions, but also the kinds of concerns they have about their experiences of such collaborations and what needs to be done to improve working partnerships.
Much of the material on the webiste will therefore be of interest to researchers considering the implications of 'emancipatory' research paradigms and the need for DPOs to be involved in setting the research agenda.
Best wishes
Mark
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