The Listening Together project is a co-design research project. Co-design means that two or more people work together to make something. In a co-designed project, everyone makes decisions equally.
The Listening Together project is co-designed by two researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) and a group of four young people with disability and young carers. You can read more about our research team here.
The co-design group has been meeting since September 2023. Sometimes we meet online, and sometimes we meet in person at the ANU.
The co-design team has worked together to build two accessible surveys. The surveys are about how young people with disability and young carers define good listening, and whether they feel listened to by the organisations and services in their lives.
Through these surveys, we hope to find out more about how organisations, such as service-providers and government agencies, can listen better to young people with disability and young carers. We want these organisations to listen to young people with disability and young carers, in the ways that they want to be listened to.
The surveys are now closed, but we will share the results on the survey on this website. We will also be doing follow up interviews and focus groups with young people with disability and young carers.
The project is funded through the ANU Futures Scheme. If you have any questions or concerns about the project, you can contact Dr Laura Davy or Molly Saunders.
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