Partners: Dr Jem Price & Dee MacDonald (SASS) with Stay Up Late. Main areas of Impact: Health, Practitioners and services, Academic

Stay Up Late and academics in Applied Social Sciences trialled a new forum for people with learning disabilities to use their voice and share their experiences with professionals. The project trialled sharing food as a way for people with learning disabilities and Social Work students to engage in two-way dialogue in order to build best practice and make a pedagogical contribution to how professionals learn about service user involvement. Contributing to MacDonald’s emerging research on learning disability and mutual support, the pilot has been evaluated and the partners are looking at ways this can developed further, potentially for other user groups, professionals and settings.