Who is invited to participate? On the diversity of informal carers in the context of participatory research

EDITED BY

Michael Schaller

Patrizia Held

Christopher Kunze

Florian Fischer

 

PUBLICATION YEAR

2026

PUBLISHED IN

Technik und Sorge. Theorie, Kritik und Empirie zur Partizipation von informell Pflegenden

CITATION

Kadi, S. (2026) Wer wird zur Partizipation eingeladen? Zur Diversität pflegender Angehöriger im Kontext der partizipativen Forschung in: Schaller, M., Held, P., Kunze, C., Fischer, F. (2026) Technik und Sorge. Theorie, Kritik und Empirie zur Partizipation von informell Pflegenden Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.

DESCRIPTION

The chapter aims to encourage researchers to reflect on the diversity of informal carers when planning participatory technology development processes. It discusses particularly young carers, informal carers with migration background, parents of children with disabilities, distance caregivers, high-intensity carers and the advantages of approaching diversity of informal carers through an intersectionality lens. 

The chapter and the entire book are open access and can be downloaded on the publisher webpage (German language publication). 

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Books & contributions to books

BOOK SERIES

Care - Forschung und Praxis