The Yellow Tulip Group is for anyone who is interested in doing research with people with a learning disability. It is run by Jonny Ding, Richard Keagan-Bull, Andrew Priest and Irene Tuffrey-Wijne who are all members of the Kingston University Intellectual Disability (KIND) research group
Our meetings are open to seasoned researchers, people just starting out, people with a learning disability, family members, carers, students, and practitioners. We’ve even had people join us from different parts of the world. If you’re curious about inclusive research, you’re welcome.
The group has been running for over four years now, and we meet on Zoom on the last Tuesday of every month from 12–1pm. The meetings are informal and friendly. There’s no pressure — you can come along to listen, share, ask questions, or just see what it’s all about.
Our topics are guided by what people in the group want to talk about. Over the past few years, we’ve explored things like:
- Doing research together with people with a learning disability
- Creative and fun research methods
- Publishing research articles together
- Ethics applications
- Sharing ongoing projects and learning together
Sometimes we’ve had short presentations. Other times, it’s been more of an open discussion. What matters most is that it’s a collaborative space where people doing inclusive research can learn from each other.
There is so much brilliant research happening, but we don’t always get to hear about it. The Yellow Tulip Group is a space to share ideas, challenges, successes, and good practice. It’s about supporting each other to do research together, not just research on people.
“Keith and I just want to thank you, Irene , Richard and Sarah for the brilliant meeting today! We’d really like Sarah to know how much we enjoyed her presentation and how it inspired Keith in taking forward his own family research… Keith felt that Sarah’s films made history much more accessible for him.” If you’d like to join us, you can email Jonny.Ding@kingston.ac.uk to sign up. We’d love to see you!
