Azrieli Accelerator Engaged Research Discussion Series
Building skills for meaningful engagement in neurodevelopment research
The Azrieli Accelerator Engaged Research Discussion Series helps researchers, at any stage in their career, build capacity to meaningfully engage people with lived experience as participants and partners in research. Open to researchers and trainees across disciplines, we introduce core principles of engaged research and explores how inclusive, community-partnered approaches can strengthen research design, practice, and knowledge sharing in neurodevelopment research.
Each online session features a brief, evidence-informed presentation followed by open discussion and shared learning. Participants will hear practical insights from each other's experiences and join a welcoming space where questions are encouraged and learning happens together.
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Recordings
View past webinars from the Azrieli Accelerator Engaged Research Discussion Series that have explored themes related to community-partnered research.
In this session, we’ll continued to discuss how to integrate inclusive language principles in scientific communication. The session refreshed the concepts learned in Part 1 and expanded on those learnings with examples of scientific communications: from recruitment posters to research presentations and from working with animal models to working with community. The presentation introduced principles of ethical relationship-building.
The words scientists use to describe research findings shape how people understand social issues, political realities, and human experience. Using neurodiversity-affirming language as a case example, this online discussion explored how linguistic framing in research influences public perception, policy conversations, and community trust. We examined the history of disability self-advocacy and how it has reshaped expectations of researchers; particularly around ways that people with lived experience should be represented in scientific literature.
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