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‘Building our own house’ as an insider-only Community-Partnered Participatory Research Council: Co-creating a safe space for Autistic knowledge production
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Dr Rebecca Ellis ,
Willow Holloway,
Selena Caemawr,
MONIQUE CRAINE,
Kathryn Williams ,
Aimee Grant
Autism, Volume: 29, Issue: 9, Pages: 2205 - 2215
Swansea University Authors:
Gemma Williams , Dr Rebecca Ellis , Willow Holloway, MONIQUE CRAINE, Aimee Grant
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/13623613241253014
Abstract
This paper describes and reflects on the first six meetings of a newly-established Autistic Community Council, founded to steer a participatory, longitudinal qualitative study investigating the reproductive health of Autistic people with wombs. The two key aims of these initial six meetings – involv...
| Published in: | Autism |
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| ISSN: | 1362-3613 1461-7005 |
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SAGE Publications
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66078 |
| Abstract: |
This paper describes and reflects on the first six meetings of a newly-established Autistic Community Council, founded to steer a participatory, longitudinal qualitative study investigating the reproductive health of Autistic people with wombs. The two key aims of these initial six meetings – involving four Autistic community leader members and three Autistic researchers – was to (i) guide the start of the project and the development of accessible recruitment materials for the future eight lay members and (ii) establish a safe space and a model of accessible communication.We draw on extracts from transcripts made during meetings, member ‘field’ notes and a reflexive co-writing practice to identify the ways in which a sense of safety was built during these first Community Council meetings. We explore what it means to be an insider-only Community Partnered Participatory Research Council and reflect on the praxis we developed to facilitate Autistic knowledge production. |
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| Keywords: |
action research, autism, community-based participatory research, participatory action research, participatory research, qualitative research |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| Funders: |
This paper reflects on a project funded by The Wellcome Trust (Grant ID: Wellcome-225274/Z/22/Z). |
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9 |
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2205 |
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2215 |