Creating an accessible project proposal: Example agenda from the collaborative design of ‘No Research About Us, Without Us’

When the call for funding was announced by the NIHR we knew we wanted to put together a project to challenge the barriers people with learning disabilities face when contributing to or leading research.

We wanted to begin as we meant to go on, inclusively. We issued an open invitation to anyone interested in working together to join a Zoom meeting and plan the research.

After the first meeting we created an easy-read summary of the discussion to support everyone to remember what was said and contribute at the next meeting. We continued this practice as we agreed the project design.