A Human Centred and Community Based Participatory Research Approach to Education Among Young People with Disabilities Living Under Occupation
Rula Ghandour
Researcher, Institute of Community & Public Health (ICPH) at Birzeit University Rula is currently completing her PhD addressing adolescents’ menstrual health among Palestine Refugee camp dwellers. She worked previously as a research and teaching assistant at the ICPH. The primary aim of Rula’s research is to understand the lived disability experience of Palestinian West Bank adolescent girls aged 15-18 years old, to understand their daily lives at home and in their communities.
This project aims to contribute to the research on young people with disabilities in conflict-affected countries focusing mainly on education. This will include relevant, concurrent and coherent research activities using participatory approach by working closely with two groups of young people with disabilities as co-researchers in a refugee camp and one site located in Area C. Together with the groups, we will conduct qualitative in-depth interviews to highlight the lived experiences of young people with different types of disabilities, spatial, gender and other main characteristics focusing in particular on their educational opportunities and constraints.