DIsabled Youth Investigates (DIY): a co-creative research collaboration

残疾青年很少被纳入研究，在非洲国家更是如此，但他们参与领导和塑造研究是确保所有人参与和包容的关键。DIY项目旨在促进残疾青年参与和纳入研究，以改变乌干达对残疾青年的消极态度和行为。DIY项目的目标是发展和实施青年主导的非洲儿童残疾研究，为残疾青年在研究中就业创造机会，并鼓励和促进青年主导的知识分享和提高认识。该项目将培训12名残疾青年的研究技能，支持训练有素的青年实习，与另外30名青年共同开展研究，并促进乌干达中部由青年主导的知识交流和研究成果的转让。该项目将促进和扩大乌干达、津巴布韦和联合王国的学术机构和残疾人组织之间现有的伙伴关系，并将有助于创建一个非殖民化、公平、多样化和包容性的研究社区。所有调查人员和项目合作伙伴都在乌干达或津巴布韦生活和工作，或身患残疾或照顾残疾人。

Young people with disabilities are rarely included in research, even less so in African countries, yet their engagement in leading and shaping research is key to ensuring participation and inclusion for all. The DIY project aims to improve participation and inclusion of youth with disabilities in research to change negative attitudes and behaviour towards youth with disabilities in Uganda. The objectives of the DIY project are to develop and implement youth led African childhood disability research, create opportunities for disabled youth employment in research, and encourage and facilitate youth led knowledge sharing and awareness raising. The project will train 12 young people with disabilities in research skills, support internships for trained youth, conduct co-creative research with another 30 youth, and facilitate youth led knowledge exchange and transfer of research findings in Central Uganda. This project will foster and expand existing partnerships between academic institutions and organizations of persons with disabilities from Uganda, Zimbabwe, and the United Kingdom, and will contribute to the creation of a decolonized, equitable, diverse, and inclusive research community. All investigators and project partners live and work in Uganda or Zimbabwe, have a disability or are caregivers of persons with disabilities.