Project overview
The research examined innovations in social care developed by adults with learning disabilities and their supporters in four case-study areas in the UK – two in England and two in Scotland. With policy shifting towards personalisation and day centres closing former service-users, with families and allies, have been seeking to self-build their own forms of social care. Using creative and dialogic methods insights were gained into to lives undergoing changes on personal, interpersonal and community planes. Using a framework of the economic, personal and democratic dimensions of lifelong learning, we observed individuals and groups navigate processes of finding out, making contributions, developing new identities, and sharing connections. Their self-build innovations were often forms of peer-support including ‘friendship circles’ and pooling of personal budgets. The team developed a set of resource packs for emerging initiatives, on issues including funding, organisation and activities.
Staff
Lead researchers
Other researchers
Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
Andrew Power, Edward Hall, Alex Kaley & Hannah Macpherson,
2021, Geoforum, 125, 87-95
Type: article
Melanie Nind, Andy Coverdale & Abigail Croydon,
2021, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 34(5), 1265
DOI: 10.1111/jar.12917
Type: conference
Alex Kaley, John Paul Donnelly, Sally Humphrey, Steven Reilly, Hannah Macpherson, Edward Hall, Andrew Power & Lisa Donnelly,
2021, British Journal of Learning Disabilities
DOI: 10.1111/bld.12394
Type: article
Melanie Nind, Andrew Coverdale & Abigail Elizabeth Croydon,
2020, Disability & Society, 0
Type: article
Andrew Power, Melanie Nind, Ed Hall, Andrew Coverdale, Hannah Macpherson, Alexandra Kaley & Abigail, Elizabeth Croydon,
2020
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1352
Type: report
Andy Coverdale & Melanie Nind,
2019, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1-3
Type: letterEditorial