Community-Based Participatory Research

A research orientation in which academic researchers and community members collaborate as equal partners throughout the full research cycle — problem definition, design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination — to address issues of shared concern and produce outcomes that benefit the community. In accessibility and disability contexts, CBPR foregrounds the principle of 'nothing about us without us,' treating disabled people, their families, and grassroots organisations as co-designers and experts on their own lives rather than subjects of study. It is widely used in inclusive makerspace, AAC, and DIY-AT projects.