Citizen Involvement

Peter Beresford OBE is Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia, Emeritus Professor of Citizen Participation at the University of Essex and of Social Policy at Brunel University London, Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national disabled people’s and service users’ organisation and Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University. He has published widely, including The Tyranny of Ideology (2021), The Future of Social Care (with Colin Slasberg, forthcoming) and as Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education (2020) and the International Routledge Handbook of Mad Studies (2022).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionMaking Sense of Citizen-InvolvementFirst Steps To Involvement: Information Gathering and Consultation From More Responsive Services to a Direct Say in Decision-makingKey Components for Effective InvolvementGuidelines for Involvement: The Agency Perspective Getting Involved with Other People: Moving from Individual to Collective ActionGuidelines for Involvement: Empowering OurselvesGuidelines for Involvement: Developing an Empowering Practice as WorkersTowards a Policy for Citizen-InvolvementFurther ReadingIndex.

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