School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2014 Jan;27(1):13-22. doi: 10.1111/jar.12076. Epub 2013 Nov 20.
Inclusive research teams typically describe their experiences and analyse the type of involvement of researchers with disability, but the process of building research teams and the need for research training still remain underexplored in the literature.
Four researchers with intellectual disabilities and four academic researchers developed an inclusive research team. The team conducted 15 research training sessions, focused on investigating the well-being of older women with intellectual disabilities. They used mobile technology to support research skills acquisition.
Findings included the experiences of all team members regarding the team building during training.
To become an effective inclusive research team, all team members, regardless of ability, need to bring their own experiences and also learn necessary research skills. This paper highlights the need for team building, joint research training among all members of the research team and strategies supporting the peer-mentoring within the team. We are a team of four researchers with intellectual disabilities and four academic researchers without an intellectual disability. Our aim has been to learn about research together. We want to do this so that we can carry out a research project together about how older women with intellectual disabilities live. We have decided to call our team 'Welcome to our Class'. We have been working together for 9 months. In this time we have had 15 research training meetings. We have learned What research is How to work out a research question, that is what we want to find out about How to get information on what we want to find out. Here we thought of interview questions we could ask older women with intellectual disabilities. We are now meeting once a month, and have just begun our research on finding out how older women with intellectual disabilities live. We are now starting to use what we have learned.
包容性研究团队通常会描述他们的经验,并分析残疾研究人员的参与类型,但在文献中,团队的组建过程和研究培训的需求仍然未得到充分探索。
四名智力残疾研究人员和四名学术研究人员组成了一个包容性研究团队。该团队开展了 15 次研究培训课程,重点调查智力残疾老年女性的福祉。他们使用移动技术来支持研究技能的获取。
研究结果包括团队成员在培训期间对团队建设的经验。
要成为一个有效的包容性研究团队,所有团队成员,无论能力如何,都需要带来自己的经验,并且还需要学习必要的研究技能。本文强调了团队建设、研究团队所有成员的联合研究培训以及支持团队内同侪指导的策略的必要性。我们是一个由四名智力残疾研究人员和四名非智力残疾学术研究人员组成的团队。我们的目标是一起学习研究。我们想这样做,是因为我们可以一起开展一个关于智力残疾老年女性生活的研究项目。我们决定将我们的团队命名为“欢迎来到我们的课堂”。我们已经合作了 9 个月。在这段时间里,我们已经进行了 15 次研究培训会议。我们了解了什么是研究、如何制定研究问题,即我们想要了解什么、如何获取我们想要了解的信息。在这里,我们想到了可以问智力残疾老年女性的访谈问题。我们现在每月开会一次,刚刚开始研究智力残疾老年女性的生活。我们现在开始运用我们所学的知识。