User-Researcher Project

We introduced a user-researcher employment system over a wide range of disabilities for the first time in Japan. The system aims to bring research that utilizes the perspectives of people with disabilities into academia and has been implemented in the area of mental illness in countries such as the United Kingdom.

Ms. Makino, who is deaf signer, was selected for a grant by the Foundation for Promoting Personal Mobility and Ecological Transportation (Eco-Mo Foundation) to develop an in-flight comfort scale, and Ms. Hirokawa is carrying out action research on information support for performing arts, including barrier-free theatrical performances.

Ms. Kita, who is neurodivergent, conducted a study titled Research on the Effects of Tojisha-Kenkyu on the Workplace, as an international collaborative project with the Cabinet Office Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).

Ms. Yui, who has an intellectual disability and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is participating in the Recovery Support Center Vision established inside a women’s prison in Sapporo, as a project commissioned by the Ministry of Justice.