Vasilis Strogilos (PI) and Co-I’s Ben Whitburn, Sarah Lewthwaite and Haiming Liu have won a Research England Participatory Research grant for their study ‘Exploring Barriers in the Provision of SEND Digital and In-Person Services’. The project will explore co-designing research with young people with disabilities and their parents/carers and personnel from SEND Information Advice and Support Services (SENDIASS), SEN departments and Digital User Experience teams in five Local Authorities in England. The focus of the research will be on improving the digital and in-person services that SENDIASS and SEN departments offer to young people with disabilities and their families, identifying and addressing key areas of failure for socially and digitally marginalised groups.
