Comment on Grace et al. (2024). Expanding Possibilities for Inclusive Research: Learning from People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities and Decolonising Research. Social Sciences 13: 37

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Grove, NC, Bunning, KT, Buell, S, Poland, FM, Kwiatkowska, GM, Chadwick, DD and Goldbart, JL (2025) Comment on Grace et al. (2024). Expanding Possibilities for Inclusive Research: Learning from People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities and Decolonising Research. Social Sciences 13: 37. Social Sciences, 14 (6).

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Abstract

This article is a response to a paper, published last year in this journal, by Grace, Nind, de Haas and Hope. The authors sought to “question how we create knowledge and challenge underlying assumptions about valid forms of knowing” (p. 3). Their focus is on inclusive research with people who have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMDs). They describe their approach as “being with”, aligned with the experience of meaning, as opposed to doing research with people, which they locate in knowledge extraction. Recognising the authors’ commitment to foregrounding the personhood of people with PIMDs, a critique is developed in order to open a debate around issues of ethical research practices, decolonisation and conceptualisation of ‘deep knowledge’.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	4409 Social Work; 44 Human Society; 16 Studies in Human Society; 18 Law and Legal Studies; 44 Human society; 48 Law and legal studies
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV697 Protection, assistance and relief > HV1551 People with disabilities
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	MDPI
Date of acceptance:	2 May 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access:	18 June 2025
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2025 14:22
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2025 14:30
DOI or ID number:	10.3390/socsci14060322
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26612

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