“…I sought to embed my creative skills as a Dramatherapist into all aspects of the research process as a way to maximise active participation and receptivity. In designing the research study, I was influenced by three different approaches to qualitative research; inclusive research (Walmsley & Johnson 2003), arts informed research (McNiff, 2008;Kapitan, 2010;Leavy, 2015) and constructivist grounded theory (Charmaz, 1990(Charmaz, , 2014. Drawing from these three approaches aimed at exploring topics of specific relevance to the lives of people with intellectual disability (Walmsley & Johnson, 2003) through accessible and creative means which highlight the different ways in which knowledge can be constructed (Eisner, 2008) whilst generating new theory which centralises the participant's voice (Charmaz, 1990(Charmaz, , 2014 as experts of their own experiences (Knox et al, 2005).…”