{"id":8978,"date":"2019-11-28T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/?p=8978"},"modified":"2019-11-28T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T13:38:02","slug":"honorary-research-associate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/honorary-research-associate\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing our New Talking Mats Honorary Research Associate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Talking Mats Board is delighted to appoint Dr Jill Bradshaw from the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, to the position of honorary research associate. This is our first appointment of this kind. Talking Mats is an evidence-based framework and research is important to us &#8211; but that research needs to be much more diverse, and involve a much wider range of people.<\/p>\n<p>Jill\u2019s role will be to give the Talking Mats team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A sounding board for research ideas and proposals<\/li>\n<li>Advice and support on publishing articles<\/li>\n<li>Identify research gaps and advise on funding avenues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are also very aware that a number of people are using Talking Mats as a research tool, and Jill will also help to develop a virtual research network to bring interested researchers together.\u00a0 We are still exploring ways in which this could work, but it could involve an email network, virtual seminars and\/or twitter chats. If you are interested in being included, and have completed our Talking Mats Foundation Training course, Jill would love to hear from you. Please email her on <a href=\"mailto:J.Bradshaw@kent.ac.uk\">J.Bradshaw@kent.ac.uk<\/a> &#8211; or email <a href=\"mailto:info@talkingmats.com\">info@talkingmats.com<\/a> and we will forward your interest to her.<\/p>\n<p>Jill is really excited about this new post.\u00a0 She says \u2018<strong>We know that the voices of people who have communication challenges can be excluded from research. This is a great opportunity to work with others to think about how we can use Talking Mats creatively in research and to find ways of including views from a wider range of people\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lois Cameron<\/p>\n<p>November 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Talking Mats Board is delighted to appoint Dr Jill Bradshaw from the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,54,38,84,21],"tags":[20,23,41,94,11,13,14,18],"class_list":["post-8978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-talking-mats-principles","category-research","category-social-media","category-training","tag-training","tag-communication-difficulties","tag-research","tag-person-centred","tag-personalisation","tag-talking-mats","tag-empowerment","tag-participation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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