About Us

The WCLD was set up in June 2025, as a spinoff from the Engage to Change Research and Evaluation project. This project was run by two researchers from Cardiff University who worked with people with learning disabilities across Wales to do co-produced and accessible research.

The researchers and people with learning disabilities they worked with felt it was time that people with learning disabilities were more in control of research about their own lives.

Read more about Engage to Change research and evaluation.

The WCLD was set up in June 2025, as a spinoff from the Engage to Change Research and Evaluation project. This project was run by two researchers from Cardiff University who worked with people with learning disabilities across Wales to do co-produced and accessible research.

The researchers and people with learning disabilities they worked with felt it was time that people with learning disabilities were more in control of research about their own lives.

Read more about Engage to Change research and evaluation.

Lived Experience

Our company is directed by people with learning disabilities, disabled and neurodivergent people. All of our work employs people with lived experience as researchers.

Voice & Choice

Everything we do supports voice, choice and control for people with learning disabilities and neurodivergent people — in research, in services, and in policy.

Co-Production

We design and carry out every project together with people with lived experience — as co-researchers, advisors and directors, not as subjects.

Policy Influence

Our work has directly influenced Welsh Government policy and supported hundreds of young people into employment. We want research to change real lives.

Profiad Bywyd

Our company is directed by people with learning disabilities, disabled and neurodivergent people. All of our work employs people with lived experience as researchers.

Llais a Dewis

Everything we do supports voice, choice and control for people with learning disabilities and neurodivergent people — in research, in services, and in policy.

Cyd-gynhyrchu

We design and carry out every project together with people with lived experience — as co-researchers, advisors and directors, not as subjects.

Dylanwad ar Bolisi

Our work has directly influenced Welsh Government policy and supported hundreds of young people into employment. We want research to change real lives.