Commissioning research, promoting equality: Reflections on the disability rights commission's experiences of involving disabled children and young people

Children's Geographies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-24

  Sin, Chih Hoong ^a   Fong, Janice ^a  

^a Office for Public Management (OPM)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disability discrimination act; Disability rights commission; Involving disabled children and young people; Research commissioning; Wider fields of power

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957943926     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733280903500174     Document Type: Article

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