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Service User Involvement in Research: Panacea or Pretence

This research delves into the levels of involvement in service user research, exploring benefits and costs for co-researchers, adult researchers, and the research itself. It discusses methods, contradictions, and useful publications in this field.

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Service User Involvement in Research: Panacea or Pretence

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  1. Service User Involvement in Research: Panacea or Pretence Dr Hugh McLaughlin University of Salford h.mclaughlin@salford.ac.uk

  2. Levels of Involvement • Tokenism • Consultation • Collaboration • Service User Controlled

  3. Benefits for the young co-researcher • Self esteem, confidence • Employability • Citizenship • Valuing of work • Remuneration • Ownership

  4. Benefits for the adult researcher • Better understanding • Access to young people’s views and priorities • Energy, contagious • Synergy • Fun

  5. Benefits to the Research • Identify questions overlooked, prioritizing • Access to language and understanding • User-friendliness of tools • Range and quality of data enhanced • YP raise issues with other young people they would not raise with an adult • Presentation of results

  6. Costs to the co-researchers • Opportunity time • Training • Exploitation • Stereotypes

  7. Costs to the adult researcher • Time • Recruitment • Resources • Writing up • Energy • Opportunity costs • Ethics committees

  8. Costs to the research • Time • Training • Support • Legal demands • Remuneration • Expect the unexpected

  9. Research Tasks • Research application • Research design • Interviewing/Questionnaires • Analysis • Writing up • Publicising

  10. Contradictions • Service User to researcher • Methodologies – knowledge construction • ‘Nothing about us without us’ • Othering • Non-service users • Outcomes and processes

  11. Useful Publications • Fraser, S. Lewis, V. Ding, S. Kellet, M. and Robinson, C. (eds.) (2004) Doing Research with Children and Young People, London: Sage • Kirby, P. (2004) A Guide to Involving Young People as Researchers, Eastleigh: Involve , www.invo.org.uk • Lewis, A. and Lindsay, G. (eds.) (2000) Researching Children’s Perspectives, Buckingham: Open University Press • McLaughlin, H (2006) Understanding Social Work Research, London: Sage, • McLaughlin, H. (forthcoming) Involving Young Service Users as Co-researchers: Possibilities, benefits and costs, British Journal of Social Work. • McLaughlin, H. (2005) Young service users as co-researchers: methodological problems and possibilities; Qualitative Social Work, 4: (2) 211-228. • McLaughlin, H. et al. (2004) Willing Participants, Community Care, 17-23rd March, p36-7 • Smith, R. Monaghan, M. and Broad, B. (2002) ‘Involving Young People as Co-Researchers’, Qualitative Social Work, 1 (2) 191-207

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