Digi-ID Citizen Advisory Panel

Brian Hogan

I’m from O’Callaghan’s Mills County Clare where my family were farming.

I now live independently in Tulla.

I’ve been involved in Advocacy and Inclusive Research since 2006. I worked with Professor Kelley Johnson when the Inclusive Research Network was just getting started. We looked at people’s ideas and choices about things like Relationships and Supports Study (2010), Our Homes (2015), Doctors and Us (2019) (www.fedvol.ie/Inclusive_Research_Network_IRN) 

I have been chair of our Brothers of Charity Clare Advocacy Platform and vice chair of the Inclusive Research Network. I’ve presented our research at national conferences and in Paris and Vienna (IASSIDD) where we presented our Clare Inclusive Research Group study “Tracking the Changes”. I have been volunteer with peer support mental health in Ennis and was peer mentor with Dr. Nancy Salmon’s Research Action Project at University of Limerick (2013-15) training people with disability in inclusive research work.

“IT is very important in Covid times. We keep in touch with friends and work but you need good equipment and good support. In research
tracking the changes helps us track back and see what’s been done or not done from the ideas we put forward.”