ONLINE EVENT

Join us at today’s meeting for the inaugural meeting for the new Research & Innovation SIG. The session will be led by Rohan Slaughter from the University of Dundee. The University of Dundee has a long history of ensuring that disabled people’s expert experience of assistive technology and AAC (augmentative alternative communication) systems are effectively included in research, and we are thrilled that they will be taking this work forward at BATA.

Agenda

The agenda will be as follows;

• Welcome and introductions.

• Review terms of reference, which includes

  • Purpose and Objectives,

  • Scope

  • Leadership and governance section,

  • Activities and deliverables

  • Work plan

• Agree membership.

• All present to outline their interest in research and if relevant to briefly describe any active or developing projects that the group may like to be aware of.

• AOB

About

The BATA Research SIG aims to bring together colleagues from academia, enterprise, from practice based organisations such as mainstream and specialist schools, colleges, third-sector run provision and organisations such as social care providers. The purpose of this group is to map out the requirements for and to undertake practically focused research that aims to directly benefit assistive technology users.

The primary aim of the group is to support the development of practically focussed technology and practice based research projects that can be advanced through ensuring that disabled people's experiences are at the heart of all proposed work. The group will provide a unique space for the partners to collaborate and propose work that can quickly move from the research stage to prototyping and implementation in real world research contexts.

This event will be free to BATA members.

Please contact info@bataonline.org to pre-register for the event if you are not part of the Research & Innovation SIG.