Exchanging notes

Exchanging notes: Where has

inclusive research got to?Melanie Nind [email protected]

Seminar series #4 10 April 2014, Open University

Who does inclusive research?

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Do we exchange notes?

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Sharing our learning

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Sharing our learning

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What have we achieved?

• Lots of examples

• Government recognition

• Talk about rights

• New alliances

• New methods

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Bead method (Ayrton)I developed a method of beads strung on a leather cord to enable participants to construct their stories about their lives and experiences of health care. Each participant made a bracelet that they could keep as a concrete reflective product.

http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/2923/1/MethodsNewsWinter2012.pdf

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What have we achieved?

• Interest in what difference it makes to do research inclusively

• Interest in costs and benefits

• Message about social inclusion

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What have we achieved?• Funding

• Being authors, reviewers, advisors, teachers

• Lots of know-how

• Some know-what

• New labels!

• Celebratory narrative9

What are the challenges ahead?

• More dialogue

• Shared language

• Second generation inclusive research – knowledge focus

• New spaces

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