Experimenting with Peer Review


Peer review is considered an important part of doing research. It’s a type of evaluation where people with similar expertise review a piece of work before its published.

However, peer review and publishing research has not always included learning disabled people easily. Both tend to be very wordy and inaccessible and often aren’t led by learning disabled researchers themselves.



We decided to think about what peer review and publishing might mean to us and imagine how we might do these more inclusively. 

We began by working with academics from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. We worked with them to explore and evaluate existing peer review forms and processes to see what did and didn’t work for us.


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