Table 1 Overview of 2-year engagement activities

Phase one: knowledge co-production

First stakeholder dialogue

June 2017

Multiple stakeholders^a (31)

To collectively prioritise policy barriers and potential solutions to employment for PWDD

Partner

Low participation from PWDD

1) Visiting a third-party disability organisation to present first event findings to PWDD

2) Held a separate focus group solely with PWDD

Focus group with PWDD

Nov 2017

PWDD (5)

To deepen our understanding of prioritised barriers and solutions

Gather information

Difficulty to get access to PWDD and limited trust

1) Working through a third-party disability organisation

2) Continued and sustained communication and trust building relationships

Second stakeholder dialogue

June 2018

Multiple stakeholders^a (49)

To co-develop employer-specific, action-oriented solutions to reduce policy barriers to employment for PWDD

Partner

Low participation from policy/decision-makers

Held a separate workshop in their workplace (i.e. Ministry) tailored to their specific stakeholder group

Phase two: knowledge mobilisation

Ministry stakeholder workshop

Dec 2018

Policy/decision-makers (16)

To provide space for dialogue about research findings with a focus on practical implementation of findings

Discuss

1) Buy-in on research findings

2) Limited time and difficulty to access

3) Reinterpretation of findings

1) Visiting stakeholders in their workplace

2) Sharing tailored information in advance of workshop

Webinar

Feb 2019

HR professionals, employers (170)

To educate and raise awareness among employers of our findings

Inform or educate

1) Lack of in-person interaction between participants

2) Distractions by other activity in office/location

3) Difficult to gauge level of engagement with content

Incentives and professional credits attached to participation via continuing education by the HR professional organisation partnership

Current affairs panel

Feb 2019

General public (32)

To discuss the applicability of engagement findings in a broader context

Discuss

1) Varied participant backgrounds and knowledge base

2) Asymmetry of information among participants

Including subject experts in the panel with both tacit and explicit knowledge to provide differing connection point for participants