The United Nations is set to collaborate on Griffith University’s innovative 1000 Voices disability research project. Professor Lesley Chenoweth, head of Griffith’s Logan campus, travels to Bangkok on Sunday where she will participate in a workshop with delegates involved in a UN action research project on Disability, Poverty and Livelihoods. Professor Chenoweth, who has driven the 1000 Voices project since its launch two years ago, will provide training to community organisations planning to conduct narrative research with people with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. “They are very interested in our methodology and it is possible that the framework used for 1000 Voices could be developed for a much bigger study across the Asia Pacific region,” she said. Dr Naomi Sunderland from the Griffith Health Institute’s Population Health Research Program presented the 1000 Voices project to an expert group of UN delegates in Thailand last year. Her presentation triggered a further invitation to this weekend’s framework session.