Flourishing Lives

This project, funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research, used a Capability Approach to try to work beyond the inertia that sits around the impact of research involving people with learning disabilities. We conducted interviews and focus groups with people with learning disabilities and then held a learning community that met online across a 9 month period. The learning community included support workers, people with learning disabilities, family carers and researchers. The findings and project resources can be found here.

Ryan, S. and O’Brien, R., 2024. Using a capability approach to explore how people with intellectual disabilities can lead flourishing lives. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 37(6), p.e13299.