Description
Editorial information: Gompel&Svacina. ISBN: 978 94 6371 294 1.
‘Working Together, Learning Together’ (WTLT) is the name of the nationwide inclusive research project in the Netherlands that was conducted from 2016 tot 2020. This book describes inclusive and action-orientated reflective practices that can be used to develop training for inclusive research teams.
The research describes methods to overcome attitudinal barriers, barriers in the social process, material barriers and within-person barriers. Based on these barriers, the study helps decide what kind of training and coaching is needed.
The research work identifies and explores four conditions for inclusive research:
- Safe research spaces and sense of belonging;
- Room for collaborative learning and competence building;
- Multi-sensory communication and research methods;
- Time for reflection on power, ownership, vulnerability, prejudice, stigma, and the risk of tokenism.
The developed training is referred to as ‘the CABRIO-training’: a coaching and training program for ‘transdisciplinary’ teams consisting of researchers with academic background, professionals from diverse disciplines and research team members with disability experience.
Sofie Sergeant works as the education coordinator and researcher for the Dutch organization Disability Studies in Nederland (DSiN) and for VU Amsterdam, Medical Humanities. Her PhD project is rooted in a national project funded by ZonMW ‘Working Together, Learning Together’: an inclusive research project on developing training and coaching for inclusive research teams.