Facilitators and challenges in partnership research aimed at improving social inclusion of persons with disabilities.

Partnership research has the potential to contribute to a more inclusive society for people with disabilities.Challenges and facilitators are identified for the stages of creating, implementing, and completing a partnership research project.Suggested solutions are offered to facilitate the conduct of a partnership research project and to increase the project's chances of success.Partnership research could benefit from using tools from other fields such as community development and social innovation to successfully implement some of the facilitators and overcome specific barriers to partnership research.