The Inclusive Research Network (IRN) at CDS is a group of people with and without intellectual disability who do research together.
That means that people with intellectual disability work together with people without intellectual disability on topics they find important and that affect them in their lives.
For us, doing research means choosing topics that are important in the lives of people with intellectual disability.
Then we talk with people in interviews or send them questionnaires to find out information about the topics. We work on things like:
We also share our work with other people by presenting at conferences in Australia and overseas. This way other people find out about our work and we can learn from each other.
Another way of sharing what we do is by writing articles about our work and publishing them.
At our meetings we talk about the topics we work on, have discussions, listen to each other, socialise and have fun. It is a great way to meet new people and make new friends.
We meet on every 4th Thursday of the month at CDS. If you would like to join send an email to cds@cds.org.au
