{"id":52,"date":"2015-01-06T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2015-02-02T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:31:09","slug":"michael-mason","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/practitioner-researchers\/michael-mason\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mason &#8211; ENABLE Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Services Manager, ENABLE Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/files\/2015\/01\/Michael-Mason-Pic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-265 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/files\/2015\/01\/Michael-Mason-Pic-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Mason Pic\" width=\"141\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>I work a services manager for Enable Scotland and have done for the last few years. We support people with learning disabilities in a variety of ways. I have a special interest in helping people who helping people who are resorting to challenging behaviour to communicate. I grew up in Kent and North Wales and moved up to Scotland to do my Psychology degree at Stirling University in 1999. At that time I had a very deterministic view of the world and since starting with this project I&#8217;ve learned that I was a \u201cpositivist\u201d interested only in what could be quantified and measured. After working for 10 years supporting people with Learning Disabilities and their staff I am now a lot more interested in how people experience the world and looking at qualitative data as well as quantitative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Services Manager, ENABLE Scotland I work a services manager for Enable Scotland and have done for the last few years. We support people with learning disabilities in a variety of ways. I have a special interest in helping people who helping people who are resorting to challenging behaviour to communicate. I grew up in Kent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/practitioner-researchers\/michael-mason\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Mason &#8211; ENABLE Scotland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}