ABSTRACT
To conduct a co-research project with older learners about their learning programme offered great potential for connecting an internal enquiry with a topic of pressing relevance well beyond the school and the university, into policy, politics and the community, locally, nationally and globally, and so to contribute to informing a wider discourse. Co-research takes participatory research a step further; the traditional subject' works alongside the academic researcher, and is involved in all aspects of the research project. The data analysis would also, of course, have to draw upon the literature review in some way, so that we could compare our results with what the academic experts had to say about older people and learning. Researchers and/or participants commenting on the process of the research are known as meta-commentary or meta-research. Every study, inevitably, will have limitations. It would have been delightful to have had the funding to conduct both quantitative and qualitative research.
