Mission Statement:
The purpose of this network is to develop an international community of practice among researchers who have a shared commitment to challenging, disrupting, and transforming ableism and the inequalities that disabled young people experience in physical education. We do this as part of an attempt to cultivate more meaningful and authentic experiences in physical education for disabled young people that will impact positively on their learning, development, psycho-emotional wellbeing and life experiences and outcomes. As an interdisciplinary body of researchers, we endeavour to do this by pursuing external research funding to conducting original, theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and empirically driven qualitative research that connects research and practice and engages with and impacts positively on disabled young people, as well as the stakeholders and communities that we ultimately serve, namely disability organisations and groups and schools. Our activities include, but are not limited to, international and interdisciplinary research projects; shared, international, doctoral student training; an international researcher-practitioner conference to foster relationships and collaboration; external research grant capture; research and practice dissemination via journal article, book, book chapter, report, and blog publication, together with conference presentation and workshop facilitation; and supporting schools and other community stakeholders to become more research engaged so that they can make more research- and evidence- informed decisions about supporting disabled young people.