Janine helped deliver this workshop alongside Anthony Maher (Leeds Beckett, UK), Justin Haegele (Old Dominion University, USA), Martin Geise (Heidelberg University of Education, Germany) and Sebastia Ruin (University of Graz, Austria). The workshop had ~50 attendees and the team have been invited to present the same workshop at the international conference in 2025.
Janine and a couple of the other workshop presenters are also currently co-editing a Routledge Handbook relating to qualitative methods for researching disability in physical education.
Hearing from Janine:
EUCAPA offered a really valuable opportunity for us, as an international group of scholars, to come together in person for the first time. Our workshop intended to challenge attendees to think differently about research with people with disabilities, and it was really well received. It was great to feel the buzz in the room, and to engage with a wide range of researchers – from doctoral researchers through to more experienced academics - about how we can use qualitative research to move our field forward.”
The workshop also provided an opportunity for the team delivering it to introduce their new research network - The International Network for Qualitative Research in Disability and Physical Education.
The purpose of this network is to develop an international community of practice among researchers who have a shared commitment to challenging, disrupting, and transforming ableism and the inequalities that disabled young people experience in physical education.
The network attempt to cultivate more meaningful and authentic experiences in physical education for disabled young people that will impact positively on their learning, development, psycho-emotional wellbeing and life experiences and outcomes.
As an interdisciplinary body of researchers, they endeavour to do this by conducting original, theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and empirically driven qualitative research that connects research and practice and engages with and impacts positively on disabled young people, as well as the stakeholders and communities that they ultimately serve, namely disability organisations, groups and schools.
If this network is something you would be interested in being a part of, please get in touch with Janine directly via email: J.K.Coates@lboro.ac.uk.