Research
Live Educate Transform Society (LET’S) partners on research that is led by the priorities, knowledge, and creativity of disabled, neurodivergent, mad, chronically ill, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Our team brings lived and living expertise together with research experience to ask better questions, design more accessible methods, and share findings in ways that support real change.
We work with universities, nonprofits, governments, coalitions, and community groups on projects that range from small, community‑based studies to multi‑year research partnerships.
How we work:
- Centring disabled, neurodivergent, mad, chronically ill, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people as decision‑makers
- Treating research as relationship‑building, not extraction
- Moving at a pace that honours capacity, consent, and care
- Being transparent about limits, risks, and institutional constraints
- Staying open to feedback and change throughout the project
- We welcome collaborations where learning goes both ways and where research is 1 tool among many for collective liberation.
What we offer:
- Research design and ethics support
- Advising on disability justice‑aligned frameworks and methodologies
- Developing accessible, trauma‑informed consent and information materials
- Thinking through power, risk, compensation, and ongoing relationships
- Help you build projects that are accountable to the communities they focus on.
- We help make your research methods more accessible, flexible, and relevant.
- Building in multiple ways to participate
- Planning for access needs such as interpreters, captioning, support people, and breaks
- Focus on methods that reduce harm, respect people’s time and energy, and honour different ways of communicating.
- We set up and support structures that place lived and living expertise at the centre.
- Designing fair and transparent compensation approaches
- Facilitating meetings in ways that are accessible, relational, and consent‑based
- Ongoing problem‑solving as projects evolve
- Our support is practical and honest, with space to name mistakes and course‑correct together.
- Co‑writing reports, toolkits, policy briefs, and curricula
- Editing for accurate, non‑stigmatizing, and community‑aligned language
- We aim to make sure the people who contributed to the research can see themselves in the results and benefit from them.
LET’S approaches all consulting and research as part of a larger commitment to disability justice, collective access, and collective care. We bring lived and living expertise, practical experience, and a relational way of working to every project, and we collaborate with you to create changes that are thoughtful, sustainable, and rooted in community wisdom.
