European Research Agendas for Disability Equality (EuRADE) Researching the researchers

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European Research Agendas for Disability Equality
(EuRADE)Researching the researchers
Centre for Disability Studies

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Centre for Disability Studies
Questions for potential partners?

• What previous research have you done on
  disability?
• Have you done research with other vulnerable
  groups?
• What previous research have you done relevant to
  the specific proposal?
• Do you have an example of work you have published
  on these issues?
• Do they have a more social or individual approach
  to disability?
• What qualitative and/or quantitative skills does
  your team have?
• Are you committed to participatory methods?

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Centre for Disability Studies
Questions for potential partners?

• Do you have any knowledge in the very specific
  topic area?
• How reliable are they and will they deliver to
  deadlines? (what project management experience
  and delivery
• Have you participated in previous European
  project consortia?
• What kind of resources can you offer in
  facilities, co-funding, people?
• What kind of role do you want in the project?
• Do you want to be the co-odinator?

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Centre for Disability Studies
Questions for potential partners?

• Would you be prepared to have a DPO as
  co-ordinator?
• What country-specific knowledge can you bring to
  the proposal?
• What country-specific contacts can you offer to
  the project?
• Would you be willing to employ or work with
  people with (e.g. intellectual, physical,
  sensory) impairments as a colleague?
• Do you know who we are and what we do, and about
  DPOs?

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Centre for Disability Studies
Questions for potential partners?

• Have you read our proposal ideas?
• What do you know about our organisation?
• Do you use any model contracts or consortia
  agreements for these kinds of collaborations?
• What model does your university use for
  calculating your costs in preparing a proposal
  budget?
• Are they are restrictions on intellectual
  property rights?
• Are you clear about the kinds of concepts and
  models that we are planning to use?

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Centre for Disability Studies
Questions for potential partners?

• Can you provide the specific methodological
  skills and capacities that we are asking for in
  our description of our partner requirements?

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Centre for Disability Studies
Questions for potential partners?

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Centre for Disability Studies
Who do we want?

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Centre for Disability Studies
Roles for disabled people?

• Research subjects and participants
• Project reference group
• Consultants and advisors
• Peer interviewers
• Co-researchers
• Academics
• Project co-ordinators
• Employers