Presenters:  Dr Brigit Mirfin-Veitch – Director of the Donald Beasley Institute & Paul Milner – Senior Researcher at the Donald Beasley Institute, 29 October 2020

What is this webinar about?

Many people with a learning disability describe lives lived at the very margins of sexual citizenship. People with a learning disability have also had little chance to “speak back” to the presumptions that shape their relational lives through inclusive research. In the “Mean As!” project, eight Storytellers with a learning disability and four emerging researchers with a learning disability wrote, listened, theorised and gifted their stories and ideas to an Online Library, they hoped would become a community resource. In this presentation we describe the project and the opportunity it afforded storytellers and researchers with a learning disability to draw readers into a moral conversation about their right to be sexual.

Who is presenting?

Dr Brigit Mirfin-Veitch is the Director of the Donald Beasley Institute and Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Post Graduate Nursing Studies, University of Otago. As a sociologist Brigit has a strong interest in understanding the social lives of people with learning disability and is committed to initiating and achieving social change through research

Paul Milner is a Senior Researcher at the Donald Beasley Institute (New Zealand). Finding new ways to elevate the voices and theorising of people with a learning disability has been a key theme in Paul’s research, and most especially within the research domains of participatory citizenship and belonging and the co-creation of inclusive research methods.