People with disability often have little or no say in the research that is conducted about them. Although co-research is increasingly considered best practice, there are few resources that can be used to build skills and support people with disability to be involved in all aspects of research. There is also little information about outcomes for people with disability who learn about doing research.
We will present results about whether the course helped participants learn about research, the range and type of benefits, if any, attained (e.g., confidence, relationships, sense of purpose, motivated an interest in research), and how the course can be improved.
An outcome of the research is the creation of resources that can be used to build research capacity in people with disability. Recommendations for delivering the course will be made, and learnings relating to supporting people, predominantly with intellectual disability, to participate in the course and achieve outcomes will be shared.

Plain Language Abstract

This presentation is about people with disability being researchers with people without disability. This is sometimes called co-research.

We ran a course for eight people with disability. The course was about doing research.

We talked to the people after the course. We asked them what they learnt at the course. We asked them what could be done better next time.

We hope that the voices of people with disability can be heard more. We hope that people with disability can be more involved in things that affect them.