ID - Research Plan

Due to the nature of the brief, I decided to create an initial plan that will let me think about the different avenues and areas I can look into regarding the issue. I want to focus on the transport issues that sit alongside living with an invisible illness/disability, I need to investigate into both public and private transportation, as both of which I have found to cause issues within the community.

Public transport ideas:

• Travel passes, eligibility for people with disabilities being judged for having specific passes or taking carers with them. 
• Buses, trains - priority seating being used by the wrong people and not being given up to the right people. 
• Times when people need to be close to their form of transport and haven't been able to. 
• Campaigns that have attempted to happen in the past how they have and haven't worked. 

Private transport:

• Look into the ways that people need their priorities they get, e.g. spaces etc.
• How to make people not judge others for having to use disabled bay spaces just from having a first look at them and presuming about their disability.
• More visually inclusive ways of incorporating invisible disability into the identity that is associated with 'disability' - the blue badge.

Types of media to investigate:

1. news stories
2. articles 
3. papers 
4. documentaries
5. youtube videos - people talking of their own experience
6. primary research sources