Inclusive research and diverse teams – who takes control and when?!
- Publication Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- http://www.asidconference.com.au/2019-proceedings, 2020
- Issue Date:
- 2020-01-01
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Background:
“An architect, an advocate, an industrial designer and a research associate – some with lived experience of intellectual disability – walk and roll into a university.” As part of the NDIA funded project “My Home, My Community” we’ve built a diverse team within the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at UTS. We are working together on the NDIA-funded project titled “My Home, My Community” which looks at how local governments can be “capacity-built” as agents of inclusion in the local community – specifically for people with intellectual disability.
Method:
Applying an auto-ethnographic approach, team members reflect on their experiences; what inclusive research means, and what they take with them beyond this project. We share what has/hasn’t worked and what it is to be a diverse team, including researchers with intellectual disability, within a large organisation.
Results:
Our team has catalysed process and administration changes within the wider university. We reveal that some parts of our practice take longer than ‘non-co-design’ methods, and this requires attention to project management and redefining estimation of outputs. Our experiences give insight into how working together brings about unexpected change and new knowledge.
Implications:
We hope that hearing our project experience will encourage other organisations to build diversity within research teams and include people with intellectual disability. This presentation is intended to encourage discussion about inclusive research approaches in universities and other organisations and answer some of the difficult questions about what really is inclusion, what limits inclusion and how to address this.
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