A new study on personal support, gender and sexuality is looking for participants. If you’d like to take part you must be aged between 18 and 30, live in England, and have over 6 months experience of managing your support arrangements. You do not have to have a PA right now. It doesn’t matter what your gender or sexuality is.
The study asks how young disabled adults make decisions about hiring personal assistants, and whether gender or sexuality (of a PA or individual employer) shape those decisions.
Find out more in this recruitment video for the study produced by Beacon Films, an organisation that works with disabled creatives and film makers.
The study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care, is a collaboration between Northumbria University, Disability North, Nottingham Trent University, Bristol University and the University of York
Findings will be used to develop resources for use by PAs, young disabled adults, and social care organisations.
All participants will receive a £20 gift voucher for taking part.
For more information please contact Ned Coleman-Fountain by emailing edmund.coleman-fountain@northumbria.ac.uk or via text message or Whatsapp on 07838664356, or visit https://supportingsexualitiesstudy.wordpress.com/
