(Dis)Empowering research(ers) through cocreation? Reconfiguring researcher identity

Curtin, Catriona; Bantry-White, Eleanor; Maxwell, Nicola; Pesch, Dirk; Swords, Calvin; Davidson, Gavin; Harold, Gill; Webb, Paul

(Dis)Empowering research(ers) through cocreation? Reconfiguring researcher identity

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Date

2025-11-07

Authors

Curtin, Catriona

Bantry-White, Eleanor

Maxwell, Nicola

Pesch, Dirk

Swords, Calvin

Davidson, Gavin

Harold, Gill

Webb, Paul

Abstract

The ‘RED Framework - Cocreating Rights Enabled by Design [RED] for IoT in Intellectual Disability’ project, explores how ‘The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ [CRPD) can be integrated into design practices and embedded into the Internet of Things (IoT), focusing specifically on applications in intellectual disability [ID]. This poster addresses the perceived challenges and affordances of co-researching with people with intellectual disability, paying particular attention to issues revolving around power imbalances, in the context of the recently launched RED Framework Project. It was presented at the 18th Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) Symposium held on November 7th, 2025, at University College Dublin, Dublin. The ‘RED Framework - Cocreating Rights Enabled by Design [RED] for IoT in Intellectual Disability’ project is funded through, and sits within, the Taighde Éireann Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications CONNECT Centre and lead by Professor Eleanor Bantry White, University College Cork (UCC), the project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between UCC, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and community partner Praxis Care. The project team also collaborates closely with the id+ Futures Project in the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC, colleagues in UCC’s Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21), to maximise impact in advancing inclusive research and innovation practices.

Keywords

Researcher identity , IoT in intellectual disability

Citation

Curtin, C., Bantry-White, E., Maxwell, N., Pesch, D., Swords, C., Davisdon, G., Harold, G. and Webb, P. (2025) '(Dis)Empowering research(ers) through cocreation? Reconfiguring researcher identity', 18th Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 7 November.