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Keeping Service User Involvement in Research Honest

Keeping Service User Involvement in Research Honest. Dr Hugh McLaughlin University of Salford h.mclaughlin@salford.ac.uk. Levels of Involvement. Tokenism Consultation Collaboration Service User Controlled Profile required. Claimed benefits for research. Common language

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Keeping Service User Involvement in Research Honest

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  1. Keeping Service User Involvement in Research Honest Dr Hugh McLaughlin University of Salford h.mclaughlin@salford.ac.uk

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

  3. Claimed benefits for research • Common language • Identify questions overlooked, prioritizing • User-friendliness of tools • Range and quality of data enhanced • YP raise issues with other young people they would not raise with an adult • Self-esteem, confidence and employability • Energy • Presentation of results

  4. Before the Research Begins • Whose idea was it? • Recruitment –same old suspects? • Informing-for-consent • Training • Safeguarding • Morally active researcher • Over promising • Reward and recognition

  5. Issues During the Research • Support needs of service users • Confidentiality • Researcher discomfort • Identity- Service user co-researcher or co- researcher who is also a service user

  6. Knowledge Claims • Favours qualitative • ‘No research about us without us’ • Standpoint position • Service user peers • Same or different criteria of validity • Experience plus research tools

  7. Conclusions • Inadequate attention • Outcomes not just process • Less rhetoric more critical analysis • Neither underclaim nor overclaim • Keep service user involvement in research honest

  8. Final thoughts • If we accept that differing types of Knowledge and expertise contribute to a full understanding , then no one has privilged ‘insider’ knowledge, but everyone has differing knowledge from which everybody can learn. Herein lies the nub of the issue. Nolan et al. 2007:190

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