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Research Fellow at @IDS_UK @SussexUni. Personal tweets on #InternationalDevelopment & #ParticipatoryResearch. How can we #LeaveNoOneBehind? Learning every day.
May 10, 2021 18 tweets 5 min read
Useful tip for researchers - include an #EasyRead summary to make your research more accessible for people with learning disabilities. You can also re-use the text to summarise your research on twitter. Thread with an e.g. 👇#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter Recent report written with @B_Rohwerder & others on the impact of #COVID19 on people with disabilities in #Nepal and #Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇳🇵♿️ids.ac.uk/publications/b…
Mar 31, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
People with disabilities are often excluded from #DevelopmentResearch. People with complex/multiple impairments such as #DeafBlindness are often excluded even from development research that focuses on disability. We wanted to challenge that & work with the most marginalised. A team of @IDS_UK researchers including @B_Rohwerder & I recently undertook a study with the #InclusiveFutures initiative to understand how people with complex/multiple impairments had experienced the #COVID19 pandemic & associated lockdowns opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handl…