Gosia Kwiatkowska
Gosia is currently working as an Acting Director of RIX Research and Media Centre.
Overview
Gosia project manages a range of Multimedia Advocacy courses and leads on a number of research projects. Currently she works on the following projects:
Mencap's Involve Me project - pilot action research with Eastway Care Provider. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of multimedia technologies in involving people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in decision making.
Implementation of Multimedia Advocacy for Family Mosaic - residential care provider in Essex;
Multimedia Advocacy for Mental Health - SCIE project - www.thebigtree.org/mental-capacity
Symbol Surfing - an exploratory pilot study to explore the potential of symbols used for surfing the Internet with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. www.thebigtree.org/symbol-surfing
Past research include: a national project for Age Concern for England on “Social Exclusion of Older People Lacking Mental Capacity”. Multimedia Advocacy Pilot Programmes for national housing and social care providers East Thames Group and RCHL. Tower Hamlets - Community Learning Disability Team - Health Action Planning Project - Implementation of Multimedia Health Action Plans within health services in Tower Hamlets.
Early this year Gosia used multimedia to facilitate inclusive research with people with learning disabilities for the National SEN Hub and Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust; deploying new media to enable research participants to articulate their first hand experiences and perspectives on inclusive education strategies and primary care provision respectively.
Mencap's Involve Me project - pilot action research with Eastway Care Provider. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of multimedia technologies in involving people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in decision making.
Implementation of Multimedia Advocacy for Family Mosaic - residential care provider in Essex;
Multimedia Advocacy for Mental Health - SCIE project - www.thebigtree.org/mental-capacity
Symbol Surfing - an exploratory pilot study to explore the potential of symbols used for surfing the Internet with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. www.thebigtree.org/symbol-surfing
Past research include: a national project for Age Concern for England on “Social Exclusion of Older People Lacking Mental Capacity”. Multimedia Advocacy Pilot Programmes for national housing and social care providers East Thames Group and RCHL. Tower Hamlets - Community Learning Disability Team - Health Action Planning Project - Implementation of Multimedia Health Action Plans within health services in Tower Hamlets.
Early this year Gosia used multimedia to facilitate inclusive research with people with learning disabilities for the National SEN Hub and Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust; deploying new media to enable research participants to articulate their first hand experiences and perspectives on inclusive education strategies and primary care provision respectively.
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Research
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Funding
Her specialist research interests are the theory and practice of Multimedia Advocacy, non-verbal communication, advocacy, learning and teaching, especially with the application of web technology. Gosia is also interested in systems design and organisational change and often leads on projects that involve implementation of Multimedia Advocacy Approach within organisations.
Interests
Portfolio
PSM402 - Law and Social Justice
PSS3320 - People with Learning Disabilities: Policy and Practice - A Social Perspective
PSS3327 - People with Learning Disabilities - Post Qualifying Module
MS0600 - Introduction to Multimedia Advocacy
MS1600 - Multimedia Advocacy Theory and Practice
PSS3320 - People with Learning Disabilities: Policy and Practice - A Social Perspective
PSS3327 - People with Learning Disabilities - Post Qualifying Module
MS0600 - Introduction to Multimedia Advocacy
MS1600 - Multimedia Advocacy Theory and Practice
Social Work
Presenting at various conferences:
June 2010 - Penhurst School for People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities Conference - "Application of Multimedia Advocacy for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities".
March 2010 - Dartington Hall Social Research Unit Seminar - "Implementation of Multimedia Advocacy across Robert Owen Communities in Devon".
July 2009 - 11th UK Joint Social Work Education Conference with the 3rd UK Social Work Research Conference - Co-presenting with Robert Johns and colleagues from the City University "Involving carers as co-educators in inter-professional education: three years of an inter-professional programme with nursing, speech and language and social work students".
October 2008 - My New Media Life Conference at British Museum - "Multimedia Health Action Planning - A pilot study with Tower Hamlets Community Learning Disability Team".
June 2010 - Penhurst School for People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities Conference - "Application of Multimedia Advocacy for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities".
March 2010 - Dartington Hall Social Research Unit Seminar - "Implementation of Multimedia Advocacy across Robert Owen Communities in Devon".
July 2009 - 11th UK Joint Social Work Education Conference with the 3rd UK Social Work Research Conference - Co-presenting with Robert Johns and colleagues from the City University "Involving carers as co-educators in inter-professional education: three years of an inter-professional programme with nursing, speech and language and social work students".
October 2008 - My New Media Life Conference at British Museum - "Multimedia Health Action Planning - A pilot study with Tower Hamlets Community Learning Disability Team".