RAP celebration May 2 nd 2013

1. RAP celebrationMay 2nd2013

2. Plan for the Day

3. Introducing RAP Research Active Programme is a module where people with disabilities, service providers and health professionals can learn to do research together • Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) • Enables people with disabilities and their allies to become co-researchers with others • Creates an informed group of co-researchers to work with IDS@UL • Opens UL’s campus to diverse learners

4. RAP at Trinity College Dublin Skype call with colleague from TCD

5. RAP Module Plan

6. Week 1 What is Research?

7. Research Cycle • Ethics Approval then Recruit People • Decide on Research Question • Gather Stories by Interviews, Focus Groups or Surveys • Tell People What We Learned • Find Answers

8. Week 2 Making Research Work for you This week we did a worksheet in the computer room about TILDA (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing)

9. Week 3Your Rights in Research

10. How does an idea get approved?

11. RAP Example

12. Week 4Designing Interview Questions Part 1: Warm up Part 2: Talk Part 3: Wrap up

13. Week 5 Doing Interviews

16. Week 6Focus Groups

19. Week 7: Designing Surveys Our research question How do students in RAP like to spend their time? Survey Questions were written to find out: • what people do for fun • what activities people do alone • what activities people enjoy doing with others • where people go to do the activities they enjoy most • how people get where they want to go • what role technology plays in coordinating activities.

20. Types of Survey Questions • Closed • Open • Scale Response • Ranked Response • Multiple Choice

21. Sample question from our survey

22. Week 8Getting Ready to Talk About What We Learned 1. Invitations2. Certificate3. Draft slides4. Survey

23. Week 9SurveysTelling the Research Story with Numbers

24. Steps to Telling the Research Story from a Survey

25. Survey Question

26. 1: Organise 2: Count

27. 3: Make a Table 4: Explain: RAP students like to do sports and socialise most for fun

28. Week 10Getting Ready: Practicing our Talk • Making choices together • Made slides about what we liked about having each person in the group • Practiced our talk for today • Did interviews about what we liked and didn’t like about RAP

29. Week 11 Celebrate by…Telling people about your work

30. Groups of students presented the slides they created highlighting what they learned in the module Then peer mentors presented individual slides highlighting what they learned through the experience.

31. What we learned… • TILDA • Ethics process • Working on the computers • Getting used to the building • Meeting new people – showing respect – waiting your turn to talk • How to narrow questions down to make them more specific • Learning how to write up questions to ask in an interview • Asking permission before you do an interview (ask questions) • Group interviews – practice; talked together and went over questions; • Okay to say no if you don’t want to answer • Icebreakers – how to make them up – collages; word cloud • Learned how to make up questions for surveys; You can write open and closed questions…multiple choice, ranked, scaled • Critique questions (saying what’s good and what’s not clear about a question). • Learned to fill out a survey • How to get to places you want to go (bus train, taxi) • Learned to design invitations for graduation • Picked out pictures to show what we learned in RAP and put them on a powerpoint slide (liked making and using slides) • Designed certificates (working together, adding pictures) • Learned to count votes to make a decision • Learned to make bar charts and learned what it meant; • RAP students like bar charts more than pie charts

32. Award Certificates

33. Student Name Student Photo Here • Sheis always ready to answer questions • Always has really good answers • Helps keep everyone in order • Very kind • Good sense of humour • Very chatty and friendly

34. RAP Peer Mentors

35. Name of Mentor Photo Here • So generous • Really good at helping set up and clean up the classroom • So funny and joking with people (and making a joke of Nancy) • Very good at interviewing people and doing roles plays for the class • Takes his time reading and doesn’t go too fast or too slow, just perfect • Good leadership

36. Special Thanks to… Co-facilitators: CoOpStudents: Research Assistant

37. What we did today

38. Looking Ahead Summer 2013 • NNDR presentation in Finland • Write paper about what students at UL and at TCD thought of RAP • Follow through with Phone App project idea from RAP 2012 grads • Link RAP grads who want to get more practice into Inclusive Research Network (next meeting is here at UL on May 23rdat 11am) Fall 2013 • Refine the module and make all learning materials available online Spring 2014 • Run RAP again at UL or at a community location with 3 peer mentors Autumn 2014 • Embed RAP in a Certificate in Clinical Therapies • Consider bringing parts of RAP into new curriculum in Clinical Therapies

39. Research Means… OPEN AND CLOSED QUESTIONS BAR CHARTS COMPUTERSPOWERPOINT SLIDESANSWERS LISTENING CONSENT LEARNING WHAT MATTERS MOST TO PEOPLEFINDING OUT ABOUT FRIENDS AND FAMILY ETHICS PIE CHARTS GRADUATION SURVEYS EXPLORING INTERESTS TRUST INTERVIEWS TRAININGUNDERSTANDINGTHE KEY TO CHANGE

40. Closing Thoughts… Professor Alison Perry Head, Department of Clinical Therapies University of Limerick

41. Questions? www.idsatul@wordpress.com

42. Time to Celebrate!!!