Mutuality in support relationships
The Project
This project aims to make resources that help support workers and people with disability to feel stronger in their work together.
Descriptions of the project, the team and ways we will tell others about the findings can be found through the above page tabs.
Project details
We know from our earlier Relationships and recognition research that ‘mutuality’ is very important in working relationships between people with disability and support workers. This is when both people care about each other, respect each other, and value each other.
The project stages
The project uses the results from our Relationships and Recognition project. The project uses participatory action research to involve people with disability at all stages in deciding how to make the resources. They have been involved in designing, making and testing the resource.
Results
As we do the research, we will find out new things we didn’t know before. We want everyone to know about these things so we will write them up into reports and make them available here. We will also make a copy of everything we write in easy-read language.
We will also hold meetings, exhibitions or talks about what we found too. These talks will be advertised in advance.
Team
Southern Cross University researchers: Sally Robinson, Kate Neale, Jaimsie Speeding
UNSW researchers: Karen Fisher, Laura Davy, Rosemary Kayess, Marie Delaney, Suzanna Poredos
Partners :Inclusion Melbourne, PWDA
Contact
You can contact us if you would like to know more about the project or our planned events. Please call or email Sally. Her details are below:
Dr Sally Robinson
Lead Researcher – Disability Research Agenda
Centre for Children and Young People
Southern Cross University
Telephone: 02 6620 3134
Email: sally.robinson@scu.edu.au
Making sure the project is safe and fair
We need to make sure our research is safe and fair for people to be involved. We have an Ethics Committee that helps us make sure this happens. If you are worried about this project, you can write to them. They will check to make sure the project is still safe and fair for everyone.
You can contact them by writing them a letter and sending it to:
Ethics Complaints Officer
Human Research Ethics Committee
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157 Lismore
NSW 2480
Or you can email them at: