Sticky – Rix Inclusive Research

We are delighted to have secured one of the Launchpad pilots for London Social Ventures to explore innovative solutions to problems in Health and Social Care.

Making research travel: Our first two Impact Launchpad pilots

Storysharing® is a unique intervention that supports individuals with severe communication problems to recall and share everyday experiences in the form of collaborative conversations.

This promotes identity, memory, community, strong inter-peer relationships, listening, agency, and equality.

Storysharing addresses loneliness and wellbeing by providing mental stimulation.

It promotes independence – making choices depends on remembering the experience and consequences of previous choosing.

It fosters high quality care, better knowledge of residents, and more effective communication between staff and residents.

It provides enjoyment and sense of purpose for staff.

The pilot project will be developed and evaluated over the next six months, working in partnership with providers and the Social Ventures team.

Rix Inclusive Research Institute was delighted to be invited by Hannah Otoo, CEO of the REYO Foundation and organiser of Autism & SEN Show Africa 2025, to take part in this year’s event.

The conference is an international affair with delegates, exhibitors and speakers from around the world taking part. There are opportunities for professional development through presentations, workshops and exploration of new resources and technologies that have been proven to improve outcomes for young people.

The event was designed to appeal to teachers, healthcare professionals, parents, and the general public who want to engage with the latest information on Autism, Learning Disabilities, and Special Needs.

Professional development from Rix Inclusive Research

RIX provided two training sessions at the event which we include as video presentations below.

Inclusion without borders is presented by RIX Director Gosia Kwiatkowska. The presentation outlines core challenges and opportunities in the provision of inclusive education, health and care. Gosia explores the approach used at RIX to include and value differences and demonstrates how policy and strategy can lead positive change and social justice for autistic people and those with lived experience of disability.

A more inclusive classroom is presented by RIX Technical Director Craig Wilkie (also a teacher, education advisor and author) and provides practical ideas and approaches to improve inclusion in classrooms through the use of software such as the RIX Wiki and RIX EasySurvey.

RIX are delighted to take part and are actively collaborating with the REYO Foundation to secure funding for future inclusive technology projects in Ghana and the UK. Our collaboration with the Autism & SEN Show Africa conference is part of our ongoing partnership.

We all know how important it is to seek and give feedback about public services, especially health and social care services, which have a direct impact on people’s lives and can profoundly affect a person’s wellbeing.

screenshot of video about survey — Inclusion Ireland and HSE’s MY VOICE Survey 2025

Inclusion Ireland, alongside HSE, Ireland’s health and social care service, have been using our RIX EasySurvey software to find out what people with intellectual disabilities think about their day services and they have promoted this in a YouTube video.

What is the MY VOICE Survey 2025

As you will see in the video, EasySurvey provides a colourful and accessible survey platform with automated text-to-speech, and placeholders for images to support both the questions and the answer options. The software also gives the survey builder the option of adding videos to each page. These could take the form of video explainers, or signed video for people who use Makaton or BSL.

In kiosk mode, getting responses from groups of people, in a day service for example, couldn’t be easier. Just pass an internet-connected tablet around the room and make sure everybody clicks on Submit on completion of the survey before passing the tablet on to the next person. Longer surveys, where not all questions apply to all voters, can be broken down into smaller sections using the skip logic function.

Meanwhile, in the admin area, EasySurvey collates the survey results in real time, giving a useful snapshot of views, with the option to export the full data to a spreadsheet.

You can find out more about RIX EasySurvey via the links below.

RIX EasySurvey

RIX EasySurvey 10 top tips

RIX software