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
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