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Bill Scott highlights some of the key strands coming out of the Inclusion Scotland webinar on DRILL funded projects in Scotland
2nd December 2020
The webinar centred around the experience and need for co-production in research, highlighting that disabled people should no longer be the subject of research, but equal partners in it.
The ‘Match Me’ project explored social housing lettings for disabled people, hearing their experiences as well as working with housing providers to find out about their practices. ...
Mutual Benefits – The Potential of Disabled People as Foster Carers
7th October 2020
There is a huge shortage of foster carers in England. We sought to find out why Disabled people are not being asked to help fill this recruitment gap of 8,500 people.
The University of Worcester worked alongside Shaping Our Lives Service User and Disabled Persons’ Network and the Foster Care Co-operative agency to look in-depth ...
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 ...