Katherine Runswick Cole looks at a small study which looks at what it means to act as self advocates to a group of adults with learning disabilities
[read the full story...]Self advocacy – what does it mean for those involved?
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Mental health research: let us reason together #RCTdebate
Amy Price and Douglas Badenoch respond to the McPin Foundation talking point paper written by Alison Faulkner entitled ‘Randomised controlled trials: The straitjacket of mental health research?’
[read the full story...]Life histories as counter-narratives for people with learning disabilities
Gerry Bennison examines an Icelandic study where four women with learning disabilities use life histories to challenge the historical, institutional accounts of their lives.
[read the full story...]Understanding research – what does it mean for me? Accessible research findings for people with learning disabilities
Last week we posted about accessible websites. This week we thought we would consider the reflections published recently on the Plain Facts project, which ran for many many years, offering access to research findings on topics of interest to people with learning disabilities
[read the full story...]How “Big Society” is experienced in the lives of people with learning disabilities: Austerity, broken promises and cruel optimism
Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society is a project funded by the Economic and Social research council (June, 2013 – September, 2015).
The project is a collaboration between universities and organisations of and for people with learning disabilities, further details can be found at: www.bigsocietydis.wordpress.com
Here, just as the project shares its findings at a national conference, Katherine Runswick Cole sets the scene and Silvana Mengoni posts about one of the published papers from the project.
[read the full story...]Is small really beautiful for delivering social care and support?
Jenny Fisher discusses a study on social care provision by micro-enterprises and discovers that small may well be beautiful for delivering care and support.
[read the full story...]Retrospective matched control analysis is a useful evaluation tool for service redesign, says Nuffield Trust report
This is a summary of a Nuffield Trust report, which describes a novel approach for the evaluation of clinical and cost effectiveness of new NHS care models.
[read the full story...](Mis)alliances in treatment research priorities
Lucy Simons summarises a recent study of treatment research priorities, which concludes that research on drugs is preferred by researchers, but evaluation of non-drug treatments is preferred by patients and clinicians.
[read the full story...]Service user involvement in mental health care: an evolutionary concept analysis
Sarah Carr finds out what an ‘evolutionary concept analysis’ has to say about service user involvement in mental health care.
[read the full story...]‘Could do better’: collective user involvement in substance misuse and mental health services
Martin Webber has a look at some Swedish research on user involvement through user advisory councils in mental health and substance misuse services.
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