Peter Beresford
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British academic, writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Beresford OBE, FAcSS, FRSA is a British academic, writer, researcher and activist best known for his work in the field of citizen participation and user involvement, areas of study he helped to create and develop. He is currently visiting professor and senior research fellow in the School of Health & Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia, emeritus professor of citizen participation at the University of Essex and emeritus professor of social policy at Brunel University London. Much of his work has centred on including the viewpoints, lived experience and knowledge of disabled people, mental health and other long term service users in public policy, practice and learning, and working for a more participatory politics.
Peter Beresford's Published Works
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Published Works
- User Involvement in Research and Evaluation: Liberation or Regulation? (2002) (299)
- Service users' knowledges and social work theory: conflict or collaboration? (2000) (215)
- Citizen Involvement: A Practical Guide for Change (1993) (203)
- Commentary and Issues : Who knows best? Evidence-based practice and the service user contribution (2006) (192)
- Service Users and Practitioners Reunited: The Key Component for Social Work Reform (2004) (174)
- 'Anti-oppressive practice': emancipation or appropriation? (2000) (142)
- Developing the evidence base of patient and public involvement in health and social care research (2011) (140)
- The politics of participation (1992) (132)
- Developing the theoretical basis for service user/survivor-led research and equal involvement in research (2005) (132)
- Service Users’ Knowledges and the Social Construction of Social Work (2001) (124)
- Thinking about 'mental health': Towards a social model (2002) (118)
- Between exclusion and colonisation: seeking a place for mad people’s knowledge in academia (2015) (117)
- User involvement, research and health inequalities: developing new directions. (2007) (116)
- Service user involvement in nursing, midwifery and health visiting research: a review of evidence and practice. (2008) (107)
- Lost in the shadows: reflections on the dark side of co-production (2020) (106)
- ‘We Don’t See Her as a Social Worker’: A Service User Case Study of the Importance of the Social Worker’s Relationship and Humanity (2008) (105)
- Research Note: Research and Empowerment (1999) (102)
- Evaluating the impact of service user involvement on research: a prospective case study (2011) (97)
- Mad matters : a critical reader in Canadian mad studies (2013) (96)
- From ‘other’ to involved: user involvement in research: an emerging paradigm (2013) (95)
- The Effects of Poverty (2005) (92)
- Poverty and Disabled People: Challenging dominant debates and policies (1996) (89)
- Disabled People, Service Users, User Involvement and Representation (1994) (89)
- What Have Madness and Psychiatric System Survivors Got to Do with Disability and Disability Studies? (2000) (85)
- Developing inclusive partnerships: user-defined outcomes, networking and knowledge--a case study. (2006) (79)
- User involvement in research: Exploring the challenges (2003) (71)
- Poverty first hand : poor people speak for themselves (1999) (70)
- Service Users, Social Work Education and Knowledge for Social Work Practice (2012) (69)
- Capacity Building and the Reconception of Political Participation: A Role for Social Care Workers? (2005) (65)
- How self directed support is failing to deliver personal budgets and personalisation (2012) (62)
- Psychiatric System Survivors and Emancipatory research : Issues , overlaps and differences (2002) (60)
- User-involvement, citizenship and social policy (1989) (58)
- Service user involvement in cancer care: the impact on service users (2011) (57)
- ‘Service user’: regressive or liberatory terminology? (2005) (56)
- The role of service user research in generating knowledge-based health and social care: from conflict to contribution (2007) (55)
- Effective engagement and involvement with community stakeholders in the co-production of global health research (2021) (53)
- Public partnerships, governance and user involvement: a service user perspective (2010) (51)
- Service users, social policy and the future of welfare (2001) (50)
- Public Participation in Health and Social Care: Exploring the Co-production of Knowledge (2019) (50)
- Mad studies and neurodiversity: a dialogue (2015) (47)
- Supporting the sustainability of Mad Studies and preventing its co-option (2016) (46)
- All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy (2016) (46)
- Selling individual budgets, choice and control: local and global influences on UK social care policy for people with learning difficulties (2009) (44)
- ‘Widening cross-disciplinary research for mental health’: what is missing from the Research Councils UK mental health agenda? (2018) (44)
- Getting ready for user involvement in a systematic review (2009) (44)
- It's our problem too ! Challenging the exclusion of poor people from poverty discourse (1995) (43)
- Creek's occupational therapy and mental health (2014) (42)
- Social care, service users and user involvement (2016) (40)
- Madness, distress and postmodernity: Putting the record straight (2002) (36)
- Welfare pluralism: the new face of Fabianism (1983) (36)
- Values and methodologies for social research in mental health (2006) (36)
- Whose empowerment? Equalizing the competing discourses in community care (1995) (35)
- Working Together for Better Social Work Education (2006) (34)
- The Principles and Provisions of Relationships (2009) (34)
- Can personal budgets really deliver better outcome for all at no cost? Reviewing the evidence, costs and quality (2012) (34)
- Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users: Making Life Possible (2006) (33)
- Service user research in social work and disability studies in the United Kingdom (2013) (33)
- Mend the gap – strategies for user involvement in social work education (2017) (32)
- We Have Choices: Globalisation and welfare user movements (2000) (32)
- Whose welfare : private care or public services? (1986) (30)
- Participation and social policy: transformation, liberation or regulation? (2002) (29)
- The increasing evidence of how self directed support i s failing to deliver personal budgets and personalisation (2013) (29)
- Theory and practice of user involvement in research: making the connection with public policy and practice (2013) (28)
- Re-Examining Relationships Between Experience, Knowledge, Ideas and Research: A Key Role for Recipients of State Welfare and Their Movements (2010) (28)
- Person-centred support - What service users and practitioners say. (2008) (28)
- Older people's participation in political activity—making their voices heard: A potential support role for welfare professionals in countering ageism and social exclusion (2005) (28)
- ‘Mad’, Mad studies and advancing inclusive resistance (2019) (26)
- It's our welfare : report of the citizens' commission on the future of the welfare state (1997) (25)
- Presenting welfare reform: poverty porn, telling sad stories or achieving change? (2016) (25)
- Genes Spell Danger: Mental health service users/survivors, bioethics and control (2002) (24)
- Where's the evidence? (2004) (24)
- Redistributing profit and loss: the new economics of the market and social welfare (2005) (23)
- PPI Or User Involvement: Taking stock from a service user perspective in the twenty first century (2020) (23)
- Building on the original strengths of direct payments to create a better future for social care (2015) (22)
- A participatory approach to social work (2002) (22)
- Supporting people: Towards a person-centred approach (2011) (22)
- Patient and public involvement in research (2020) (21)
- All Quiet on the Western Front, E. M. Remarque (translated by A. W. Wheen), London and New York, Little Brown and Company, 1995 (reprinted) (2008) (19)
- Developing skills for community care: A collaborative approach (1995) (18)
- Personalization of health care in England: have the wrong lessons been drawn from the personal health budget pilots? (2014) (18)
- The modernisation of mental health day services: participatory action research exploring social networking (2010) (17)
- Social work and a social model of madness and distress: Developing a viable role for the future (2005) (17)
- Disability Rights and Wrongs? (2007) (16)
- From 'vulnerable' to vanguard: challenging the Coalition (2012) (16)
- Building solidarity, ensuring diversity: lessons from service users' and disabled people's movements (2011) (16)
- The Participation of Adult Service Users, including Older People, in Developing Social Care. Practice Guide for Social Care Institute for Excellence (2007) (16)
- Government guidance for the Care Act: undermining ambitions for change? (2014) (16)
- Social work and social care: the struggle for knowledge (2001) (15)
- Making the connections with direct experience: from the Western Front to user‐controlled research (2006) (15)
- Commentary on: Happell, B. & Scholz, B (2018). Doing what we can, but knowing our place: Being an ally to promote consumer leadership in mental health. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27, 440–447 (2018) (14)
- Mental health service users and disability: implications for future strategies (2002) (14)
- Social care, personalisation and service users: addressing the ambiguities (2009) (14)
- Where do service users' knowledges sit in relation to professional and academic understandings of knowledge? (2013) (14)
- Radical social work and service users: a crucial connection (2011) (14)
- From ‘recovery’ to reclaiming madness (2015) (13)
- The false narrative about personal budgets in England: smoke and mirrors? (2016) (13)
- Working together – innovative collaboration in social care research (2014) (13)
- Time to get Real about Personalisation (2008) (12)
- Editorial: Destination Mad Studies (2016) (12)
- The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education (2020) (12)
- A Challenge to Change: Practical experiences of building user-led services (1993) (11)
- Developing partnerships to resist psychiatry within academia (2014) (10)
- Semantics of patient choice: how the UK national guideline for depression silences patients (2019) (10)
- What Has Disability Got to do with Psychiatric Survivors (1996) (9)
- Strengths-based practice: social care’s latest Elixir or the next false dawn? (2017) (9)
- Is hearing assessed after bacterial meningitis? (1993) (9)
- Identifying the impact of service user involvement on the lives of people affected by cancer: Final report (2008) (9)
- From psycho-politics to mad studies: learning from the legacy of Peter Sedgwick (2016) (9)
- Further lessons from the continuing failure of the national strategy to deliver personal budgets and personalisation (2015) (9)
- The eligibility question – the real source of depersonalisation? (2016) (9)
- The need to bring an end to the era of eligibility policies for a person-centred, financially sustainable future (2017) (8)
- Differentiated consumers? A differentiated view from a service user perspective (2009) (8)
- Psychiatric system survivors: an emerging movement (2013) (8)
- Reframing the nurse's role through a social model approach: a rights-based approach to workers' development. (2004) (8)
- Service-user involvement in evaluation and research: issues, dilemmas and destinations (2005) (8)
- The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies (2021) (8)
- COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice: Volume 1: The Challenges and Necessity of Co-production (2021) (7)
- A straight talking introduction to being a mental health service user (2010) (7)
- Income and wealth (1996) (6)
- Advancing The Positives Of Personalisation/Person Centred Support: A multi-perspectives view (2014) (6)
- Who gets to study whom: survivor research and peer review processes (2020) (6)
- Being On The Receiving End: lessons for community development and user involvement (1988) (6)
- Social work and a social model of madness and distress (2012) (5)
- Independent living: the real and present danger (2020) (5)
- Mad Studies: (2019) (5)
- Service Users and Community Care: New Roles, New Knowledges, New Forms of Involvement? (2000) (5)
- Expert advice. (2009) (5)
- Psychiatric System Survivors (2012) (5)
- Including Our Self In Struggle (2019) (4)
- An occupational justice perspective on playing football and living with mental distress (2021) (4)
- COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice: Volume 2: Co-production Methods and Working Together at a Distance (2021) (4)
- Disability and Globalization (2002) (4)
- The Homeless Person and the Psychiatric Services (1976) (4)
- Personal Health Budgets for the UK NHS (2009) (4)
- Partnership Working: Service Users and Social Workers Learning and Working Together (2007) (4)
- Peter Townsend, disability, Fabianism and self‐organisation – an enduring difficulty. An obituary (2010) (4)
- A service-user perspective on evidence (2007) (4)
- Reflections On A Life In Social Work: A Personal and Professional Memoir (2013) (4)
- In Whose Interests? Local Research Ethics Committees and Service User Research (2007) (3)
- Personalisation, brokerage and service users: Time to take stock (2009) (3)
- Ignored or just forgotten (2012) (3)
- Where Do You Stand with Service Users? (2001) (3)
- Participatory Ideology (2021) (3)
- Putting users in control. (2006) (3)
- Assessing research and involving people using health and social care services: addressing the tensions (2008) (3)
- Critical issues in the development of service user involvement (2020) (3)
- A failure of national mental health policy and the failure of a Global Summit (2018) (3)
- Evidence‐Based Care: Developing the Discussion (2001) (3)
- Distress and disability: Not you, not me, but us? (2015) (2)
- Making user involvement effective: lessons from cancer care (2009) (2)
- The Changing Role of Professor: Including Everyone's Knowledge and Experience (2005) (2)
- An analysis of the impact of life insurance cost disclosure (1984) (2)
- Managing meningitis in children: audit of notifications, rifampicin chemoprophylaxis, and audiological referrals. (1995) (2)
- All our Welfare (2016) (2)
- Service users: Individualised involvement or collective action? (2008) (2)
- Personalisation and housing: a service user view (2009) (2)
- User Involvement: Time to get Serious (2002) (2)
- The context for a social model of alcohol use (2015) (2)
- Ideology and us (2021) (2)
- Validating critical avoidance: Professional social work, mental health service users/survivors, and the academy (2015) (2)
- What Does “Good” Community and Public Engagement Look Like? Developing Relationships With Community Members in Global Health Research (2022) (2)
- Pinpoint for windows (1996) (1)
- Scenarios for the future of mental health care: whose interests, whose perspectives, whose future? (2017) (1)
- Levelling the playing field: Exploring inequalities and exclusions with a community‐based football league for people with experience of mental distress (2022) (1)
- Service-User Involvement (2012) (1)
- Service user involvement in research (2020) (1)
- Cumberlege--cracks in the community. (1986) (1)
- Where would we be without the pharmaceutical industry? A service user’s view (2005) (1)
- Prioritisation of prevention services: Determining the applicability of research from the US to the English context (2008) (1)
- From dementia tax to a solution for social care: Radical thinking on social care is crucial for the well-being of all of us (2018) (1)
- Quality in Personal Social Services: The Developing Role of User Involvement in the UK (2019) (1)
- Mad studies is an idea that is new to the UK, but one that offers fresh hope of improving the lives of people experiencing distress, argues Professor Peter Beresford. (2014) (1)
- From Clients As Fellow Citizens to Service Users As Co-Producers of Social Work (2020) (1)
- Reprioritising social work practice (2019) (1)
- Psychopolitics and Mad Studies (2016) (1)
- The burning questions (2008) (1)
- User-led service providers need more support from the Government if its commitment to ‘independent living’ for disabled people is to be achieved (2011) (1)
- Participation in social policy and social work learning (2005) (1)
- Listening to the Voice of the Consumer: A New Model for Social Services Research. (1990) (1)
- Getting Involved with Other People: Moving from Individual to Collective Action (1993) (0)
- Key Components for Effective Involvement (1993) (0)
- Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations (2022) (0)
- Service Users' Organisations (2014) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- The White Paper and Prospects for Social Care: A Personal View (2006) (0)
- Reply to: 'A response to Beresford & Croft "It's Our Problem Too"' by Peter Golding (1996) (0)
- Once more on personalisation (2022) (0)
- Shirley Otto and Jim Orford, Not Quite Like Home: Small Hostels for Alcoholics and Others , John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1978. xi+218 pp. £7.95. (1979) (0)
- Book Review: Telling it as it is (2007) (0)
- Introduction to the book (2020) (0)
- Tim Cook, Vagrant Alcoholics, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1975. x+189 pp. £4.95 - John Stewart, Of No Fixed Abode: Vagrancy and the Welfare State, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1975. viii+200 pp. £6.00. (1977) (0)
- Personalisation (2013) (0)
- Learning to work together: the key to inclusive involvement (2021) (0)
- Editorial Groupwork and user involvement: A critical pairing (2014) (0)
- Reception Centres: an Index of Social Service Inadequacy (1975) (0)
- Ideology: an exclusionary idea? (2021) (0)
- Where do service users’ knowledges sit in relation to professional and academic understandings of knowledge? (2013) (0)
- Who's normal? (2006) (0)
- Can traditional mental health services be part of a wellbeing approach (2009) (0)
- The Future of Social Care: Change, Retrenchment or Sustainability? (2010) (0)
- Independent living for all: renewing social care through a rights-based approach (2020) (0)
- Social care funding: Getting beyond low priority and political opportunism (2010) (0)
- Postscript (2021) (0)
- The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support (2022) (0)
- Guidelines for Involvement: The Agency Perspective (1993) (0)
- Supporting people (2011) (0)
- Advancing Relationship-Based Social Work Through Mending Gaps Between Service Users, Carers, Social Work Students, and Practitioners: A Case Study Involving Refugees (2020) (0)
- Mending gaps in social work education in the UK (2021) (0)
- Social work by and for all (2019) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Insight re-visited (2005) (0)
- Time to go. (2008) (0)
- Making Sense of Citizen Involvement (1993) (0)
- Subjectivity, Citizenship and Mental Health: UK Service User Perspectives (2021) (0)
- Shared Care in Childhood Asthma - Can It Work? (1998) (0)
- Contributions on participatory social research (2006) (0)
- From More Responsive Services to a Direct Say in Decision-Making (1993) (0)
- Letter: the homeless person and the psychiatric services. (1976) (0)
- Guidelines for Involvement: Developing an Empowering Practice as Workers (1993) (0)
- Towards a Policy for Citizen Involvement (1993) (0)
- Guidelines for Involvement: Empowering Ourselves (1993) (0)
- The End of Isolation (2019) (0)
- First Steps to Involvement: Information-Gathering and Consultation (1993) (0)
- Reflections on power, knowledge and change (2021) (0)
- Child neglect: Participation, poverty and distress - the crucial coupling (1997) (0)
- Participatory pathways in social policymaking: (2021) (0)
- A basic income and the democratisation of social policy (2018) (0)
- You're Not In The Picture: Service users, research, involvement and change (2015) (0)
- Response to the paper 'Modelling the relationship between needs and costs: how accurate resource allocation can deliver personal budgets and personalisation' (2013) (0)
- Unhappy about Happiness (2008) (0)
- A new agenda for social work: Tackling inequalities in physical health (2007) (0)
- Throwing the baby out with the bathwater (*CBT*) (2005) (0)
- Towards a person-centred approach by (2012) (0)
- Book Review: Poverty (2006) (0)
- Developing our own organisations (2021) (0)
- Editorial Groupwork and user involvement (2013) (0)
- Conclusion: reclaiming ideology (2021) (0)
- What is participatory research with service users (2008) (0)
- Key concepts for participatory ideology (2021) (0)
- A participatory approach to services and support (2017) (0)
- Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups (2006) (0)
- Service users in research (2007) (0)
- Participation: challenging the barriers (2021) (0)
- The Participation of Adult Service Users, Including Older People, in Developing Social Care: SCIE Guide 17 (2007) (0)
- Citizen involvement in public policy (1997) (0)
- Concluding Thoughts (2019) (0)
- A different approach to ideology (2021) (0)
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