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3. Co-production
Highlights:
  • People with lived experience of autism and personality disorder have shaped the project from start to finish, including holding leadership roles in the project and carrying out key research activities.

  • These include our co-lead Jennie Parker and our co-researcher Eloise Stark, who are both autistic researchers with lived experience of personality disorder diagnosis, and our panel of lived experience advisors.

Further Information:

Jennie Parker, an autistic researcher with lived experience of personality disorder diagnosis is:

1.   Co-leading the project management

2.  Co-designing the project

3.  Leading on carrying out the qualitative interviews and analyses for study 2

4.  Leading the lived experience advisory panel

5.   Co-authoring the study papers and website

You can learn more about Jennie and the rest of the I-Rap team, here.

Our lived experience panel are:

1.    Providing expertise on the overlap and misdiagnosis of autism and personality disorder

2.   Advising on the aims and methods for the three research studies

3.   Advising on language and content for all participant documents including information sheets 

4.   Advising on language and content for the qualitative interview questions

5.   Advising on interpretation and dissemination of study findings

6.   Testing the website 

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