Disability Research on Independent Living & Learning (DRILL)
DRILL in Wales: The Impact so Far
3rd July 2020
Jody Mellor reflects on the learning for Wales, as the DRILL project begins to draw to a close, and introduces a series of webinars to share some key learning from the projects.
Historically, research on disability has rarely included
people with lived experience. Disabled people have been excluded from
participating in research about our own lives. Complex statistics ...
Energy impairment and disability inclusion – report by the Chronic Illness Inclusion Project
28th April 2020
Catherine Hale
If you ask someone living with a debilitating chronic
illness if they consider themselves to be disabled, you often get a “yes but,
no but” kind of reply.
If you dig deeper, you may find their ambivalence is not so much
because they see disability in negative terms. It’s often because they don’t
feel entitled to the status of ...
Why are disabled people seemingly unexpected in the legal profession and what can we do to create a culture of inclusion and access?
18th February 2020Natasha Hirst from the Legally Disabled project reflects on the findings of the project, and last month’s conference, about disabled people working in the legal profession.
Blog: Looking at the effectiveness of Accessibility Plans in secondary schools
23rd January 2020DRILL has published the research carried out by the Alliance for Inclusive Education (Allfie) into the effectiveness of Accessibility Plans in secondary schools. Dr Armineh Soorenian, who carried out the research, tells us about what she found and some of the stories she heard.
I travelled across England and conducted 12 focus groups consisting of Disabled ...