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User Involvement in Research and Evaluation: Liberation or Regulation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2002

Peter Beresford
Peter Beresford
Affiliation:
Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel Universitypeter.beresford@brunel.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article explores the progressive and regressive potential of ‘user involvement’ in research and evaluation, with particular reference to social policy. There is growing political and research interest in user involvement. This article critically explores key different approaches to user involvement in research and relates them to consumerist and democratic models of involvement in policy and practice, management and development. The article highlights the need to approach user involvement in research critically and systematically, taking account of the diversity of approaches that have developed and to take forward user involvement in research in equal association with service user organisations and movements.

Type
Research Article
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 95 - 105
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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