Special Issue on the research and work of people with learning disabilities and their allies and supporters

This was a Special Issue guest edited by The Partnership Steering Group (Learning Disability Studies, University of Manchester). The theme of the issue was - 'The research and work of people with learning disabilities and their allies and supporters’.People with learning disabilities have found it difficult to access their rightful place in discussion within academia despite government departments, research councils and the larger charities demanding that inclusive/service user involved or partnership research is the ethical way of working.We were therefore delighted that the British Journal of Learning Disabilities gave us space to showcase the work of people with learning disabilities who are researchers and writers. This Special Issue is the first of its kind to offer peer reviewing and an editorial undertaken by experts with learning disabilities working in partnership with their allies in the field.The main aims of the Special Issue were to include articles that explored topics wholly relevant to the lives of learning disabled people, whether this was about real life research and /or production of knowledge. It provided an opportunity to critically explore a collection of research from a number of subject areas. [email protected] The Partnership Steering Group School of Education University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL 0161 275 8477