On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project
Inclusive research practices can lead to progress towards an inclusive society. With this study, we aimed to gain insight into dilemmas and catalysing processes within the long-term collaboration of an inclusive research duo: one non-academic researcher who lives with the label of intellectual disab...
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| author | Sofie Sergeant Henriëtte Sandvoort Geert Van Hove Petri Embregts Kim van den Bogaard Elsbeth Taminiau Alice Schippers |
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| description | Inclusive research practices can lead to progress towards an inclusive society. With this study, we aimed to gain insight into dilemmas and catalysing processes within the long-term collaboration of an inclusive research duo: one non-academic researcher who lives with the label of intellectual disabilities and visual impairment, and one academic researcher. Both researchers kept personal diaries about their collaboration process. Inductive thematic analysis, individually and as a group of authors, was employed. Our findings reveal six necessary conditions for diversity-sensitive work in inclusive research: (a) experiencing belonging within the research group, (b) empowering people in a team through growing self-awareness and competence-building, (c) having room for reflection and searching for various ways of communication, (d) sharing power and ownership of research processes, (e) having enough time to foster the above conditions, and (f) joining in a mutual engagement in accommodating vulnerability in dialogue and collaborative work. Awareness of stigma-related issues and the risk of tokenism is also required. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db7f65023c6f41498f471b3aeac23d922023-11-23T13:04:51ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602022-04-0111518510.3390/socsci11050185On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research ProjectSofie Sergeant0Henriëtte Sandvoort1Geert Van Hove2Petri Embregts3Kim van den Bogaard4Elsbeth Taminiau5Alice Schippers6Disability Studies in Nederland, 3453 NW De Meern, The NetherlandsLFB, 3527 GV Utrecht, The NetherlandsDepartment of Special Needs Education, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, BelgiumTranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavorial Sciences, Tilburg University, 5037 DB Tilburg, The NetherlandsKoninklijke Kentalis, 5271 GD Sint-Michielsgestel, The NetherlandsTranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavorial Sciences, Tilburg University, 5037 DB Tilburg, The NetherlandsDisability Studies in Nederland, 3453 NW De Meern, The NetherlandsInclusive research practices can lead to progress towards an inclusive society. With this study, we aimed to gain insight into dilemmas and catalysing processes within the long-term collaboration of an inclusive research duo: one non-academic researcher who lives with the label of intellectual disabilities and visual impairment, and one academic researcher. Both researchers kept personal diaries about their collaboration process. Inductive thematic analysis, individually and as a group of authors, was employed. Our findings reveal six necessary conditions for diversity-sensitive work in inclusive research: (a) experiencing belonging within the research group, (b) empowering people in a team through growing self-awareness and competence-building, (c) having room for reflection and searching for various ways of communication, (d) sharing power and ownership of research processes, (e) having enough time to foster the above conditions, and (f) joining in a mutual engagement in accommodating vulnerability in dialogue and collaborative work. Awareness of stigma-related issues and the risk of tokenism is also required.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/5/185collaborationinclusive researchintellectual disabilities |
| spellingShingle | Sofie Sergeant Henriëtte Sandvoort Geert Van Hove Petri Embregts Kim van den Bogaard Elsbeth Taminiau Alice Schippers On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project Social Sciences collaboration inclusive research intellectual disabilities |
| title | On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project |
| title_full | On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project |
| title_fullStr | On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project |
| title_short | On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project |
| title_sort | on the road together issues observed in the process of a research duo working together in a long term and intense collaboration in an inclusive research project |
| topic | collaboration inclusive research intellectual disabilities |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/5/185 |
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