Data-set for Self Advocacy and Inclusion: what can be learned from speaking up over the years. A series of five life stories of members of Reinforce

This data-set contains a series of five life stories of members of Reinforce, the oldest self advocacy group in Victoria. It represents one of the outcomes of a collaborative research project between the Living with Disability Research Centre (Latrobe University) and the Reinforce History Group, which was a collaborative group formed to work on the ARC Linkage project ‘Self Advocacy and Inclusion: What can be learned from speaking up over the years’. The group consisted of Amanda Hiscoe, Colin Hiscoe, Janice and John Slattery, Norrie Blythman, Jane Rosengrave (Hauser) and the late David Banfield from Reinforce and Professor Christine Bigby, Dr Patsie Frawley (La Trobe University) and Dr Paul Ramcharan (RMIT). These life stories were produced over two years of collaboration with members of the history group and the historian Dr David Henderson (La Trobe University)

The titles of the life stories are "David Banfield and Norrie Blythman Life Story", Life as a Married Couple", Free as a Bird at Last", "Colin Hiscoe's Life Story" and "A Day in my Shoes: Amanda Hiscoe's Life Story".

本数据集收录了维多利亚州历史最悠久的自我倡导（self advocacy）团体Reinforce的五名成员的人生故事合集。本数据集系拉筹伯大学残疾人生活研究中心与Reinforce历史工作组合作研究项目的成果之一；该工作组为参与澳大利亚研究委员会（ARC）联动项目“自我倡导与包容：从多年发声中可汲取何种经验”而组建。该工作组由来自Reinforce的Amanda Hiscoe、Colin Hiscoe、Janice与John Slattery、Norrie Blythman、Jane Rosengrave（Hauser）及已故的David Banfield，拉筹伯大学Christine Bigby教授、Patsie Frawley博士，以及皇家墨尔本理工大学（RMIT）Paul Ramcharan博士组成。本系列人生故事由该历史工作组与历史学家、拉筹伯大学David Henderson博士历时两年协作完成。
该系列人生故事的标题依次为：《David Banfield与Norrie Blythman人生故事》、《携手相伴的婚姻生活》、《终获自由之鸟》、《Colin Hiscoe的人生故事》以及《亲历一日：Amanda Hiscoe的人生故事》。