'Fighting for our Rights‘, Transforming the curriculum through engagement with real-life experiences.

This paper analyses the pedagogical outcomes of 'Fighting for our Rights‘ project (2016-2018), a Heritage Lottery-funded collaboration between Kingston Centre for Independent Living (KCIL), Royal Borough of Kingston, Heritage2Health (School of Nursing), School of Education, StoryAID and St Philips school. It involved collecting and sharing life narratives from people involved in Disability Rights Movement (DRM) from 1960s to 1990s within Kingston in order to create a permanent historical record that would inspire future generations of care professionals and teachers in working with people with disabilities. It was pertinent to preserve this historical material (in various formats) before it is lost as it a source of knowledge and inspiration for the community and future generations. Through their inclusion in the project, two university departments aimed to identify how this permanent historical record of disability and the process of its creation would affect: • awareness, knowledge and understanding of student nurses and student teachers about disability and inclusion; • attitudes to disability through learning about local disabled people‘s activism and the independent living scheme; • the transformation of HE modules through collaborative work and co-production, while building relationships with people with disabilities and the wider community in a real-life project.