Inclusive Research workshop - 2 sessions - 22 and 23 January 2025

This Inclusive Research foundational workshop gives you the confidence and competence to start your inclusive research practices. 

The workshop gets you started with the principles, mindsets and practices of inclusive research operations and gives you a plan to keep maturing.

Who should attend

Are you…

• Working in the growing research operations field (ResearchOps.Community)?
• Conducting or helping in user research or usability testing of products and services?
• Looking to engage People with Disability for research activities?

What you will learn

This workshop equips UX researchers and research operation teams to confidently:

• Make research practice and operations more inclusive
• Collaborate with people with disability to structure research operations
• Ensure insights of people with disability are captured appropriately in research
• Engage and build relationships with people with disability in research activities
• Prepare for research sessions to support equity, safety and diversity

Each workshop is limited to only 10 attendees, minimum attendance is 6 people to allow for maximum participation or the workshop will be rescheduled.

The workshop includes:

• Inclusive Research Guiding Principles, co-designed with people with disability
• Stories and input from people with disability sharing their lived experience of being involved in research activities
• Practical advice illustrated with examples
• How your research can be designed to be inclusive

Special extension: we will be piloting some new workshop content, so the session will be open for an extra 30 minutes for those who wish to stay.

Ticket prices

Our flexible ticket prices make Inclusive Research training available to as many people as possible, to account for different financial situations. If you wish to discuss assistance with workshop costs and discounts, please contact inclusive.research@ozewai.org.

Group bookings

If you are interested in booking this foundational workshop or an advanced option specifically focused on elements for your team, please contact inclusive.research@ozewai.org.

Workshop set up and access

The workshop agenda is shared before the event, which includes links to the activities. This is a remote online event using Zoom. Following the event, participants are invited to a closed workshop channel in the Researchops.Community Slack to continue the discussion and to access the inclusive research resources. 

The workshop offers: closed captions, large print documents, and keyboard navigation. Please tell us if you will be accessing the workshop on a tablet or other device. 

Please email inclusive.research@ozewai.org if you have any questions or wish to share any tools, communication methods or anything else we should consider to ensure you can fully participate in the session.

Presented by:

Adam Cooper - He/Him

Adam has been in and out of the digital accessibility space for the past seventeen years. Earlier in his career, He worked for Vision Australia and the Victorian Office for Disability in a variety of capacities including assistive technology skills training, sales, and support, and digital access policy development. For the past decade, Adam has worked with private organisations and various government agencies delivering accessible digital solutions, education and awareness, and managerial and strategic consulting. Adam has a broad range of skills and experience across information technology and organisational development including business analysis, project management, user research, skills training, quality assurance and testing, and user interface design and development. Until August, Adam was the lead Digital Accessibility Consultant with NDIA. He is currently taking a break from full time engagements to renovate his house.

Brigitta (Bri) Norton - She/Her

Bri is a Digital Strategist and User Experience and Accessibility specialist based in Canberra and has previously been an Accessibility Lead for Australian Federal and State Governments. Bri co-developed these workshops to share how to include accessibility earlier in the project lifecycle which includes engaging with people with disability as part of inclusive research activities. Bri is the co-chair for OZeWAI.org Australia’s Web Accessibility Initiative, a Standards Australian Accessible ICT Procurement Committee Member and a member of the ResearchOps.Community Cheese Board.

Irith Williams - She/Her

Irith works with people with lived experience to make useful stuff. Her research, strategy and design work is informed by trauma-informed care and emerging decolonial practices of research and design. Irith has over 10 years of experience collaborating in sensitive settings such as health and higher education. Irith combines systems and design thinking with 'real world' people, practices and problems. Irith works as a freelance Strategic Designer and Inclusion and Accessibility advisor.