Start Date
19-6-2025 9:00 AM
End Date
19-6-2025 10:30 AM
Abstract
Historically, the voices of disabled young people have been omitted from research concerning their physical education and sport provisions (Maher & Haegele, 2024). Whilst emancipatory research designs like participatory and creative methods offer platforms to include and empower disabled young people in research (Kara et al., 2021; Sharpe et al., 2021), such inclusion often does not extend to dissemination of such research findings. Traditional research dissemination is dominated by journal articles and book chapters, which are inaccessible to, or fail resonate with, the young people with whom we conduct research (Stride et al., 2022; Watermeyer, 2014).
#WheelchairBBStories is a novel and creative, co-designed, illustration-based research dissemination project, designed to highlight critical aspects of disabled young people’s experiences in wheelchair basketball by synthesising collective findings from past participatory research projects alongside disabled people’s lived experiences.
Methodologically this presentation offers insights across the conceptual stages of the project, co-design processes, illustration development and launch. Furthermore, the technological aspects of disseminating a digital project and capturing impact are also considered to help guide researchers who are interested in similar approaches.
Results will showcase the final project and share the co-designed illustrations while demonstrating how the project has embedded further signposting and support for people who digitally interact with it. #WheelchairBBStories project will appeal to researchers who research with disabled young people and aspire to effectively, creatively and accessibly communicate their findings so that outputs resonate with and respectfully represent disabled people.
Recommended Citation
Sharpe, Lesley M. Dr; Coates, Janine K. Dr; and Goosey-Tolfrey, Victoria Prof, "#WheelchairBBStories: A co-designed resource for accessible dissemination of research" (2025). International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity and International Symposium on Physical Activity and Visual Impairment and Deafblindness. 2.
https://sword.mtu.ie/isapa/2025/day4/2
#WheelchairBBStories: A co-designed resource for accessible dissemination of research
Historically, the voices of disabled young people have been omitted from research concerning their physical education and sport provisions (Maher & Haegele, 2024). Whilst emancipatory research designs like participatory and creative methods offer platforms to include and empower disabled young people in research (Kara et al., 2021; Sharpe et al., 2021), such inclusion often does not extend to dissemination of such research findings. Traditional research dissemination is dominated by journal articles and book chapters, which are inaccessible to, or fail resonate with, the young people with whom we conduct research (Stride et al., 2022; Watermeyer, 2014).
#WheelchairBBStories is a novel and creative, co-designed, illustration-based research dissemination project, designed to highlight critical aspects of disabled young people’s experiences in wheelchair basketball by synthesising collective findings from past participatory research projects alongside disabled people’s lived experiences.
Methodologically this presentation offers insights across the conceptual stages of the project, co-design processes, illustration development and launch. Furthermore, the technological aspects of disseminating a digital project and capturing impact are also considered to help guide researchers who are interested in similar approaches.
Results will showcase the final project and share the co-designed illustrations while demonstrating how the project has embedded further signposting and support for people who digitally interact with it. #WheelchairBBStories project will appeal to researchers who research with disabled young people and aspire to effectively, creatively and accessibly communicate their findings so that outputs resonate with and respectfully represent disabled people.