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Abstract: This article reflects on the experience of a collaborative research project undertaken by disabled people, practitioners and academics. The project, Standards We Expect, explored what person-centred care means and how it could be achieved in adult social care. The authors describe how their collaborative approach was developed and sustained over the large-scale, four-year project. It involved establishing a consortium – a group of organisations coming together to carry out the project. They highlight some of the impacts of their approach and conclude that it would have been impossible to have achieved the range and depth of findings without their collaborative approach. The diverse membership of the research team gave the researchers credibility in the research sites and the people they were working with. This appeared to make it easier for people to be honest and say what they thought. At the end of the project, the team produced a range of outputs to ensure the findings would be accessible to different audiences. This included a book for practitioners and academics, and a book summary in easy words and pictures. They also produced a handbook for service users and practitioners about running accessible training.

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Categories: social care
Identifying topics, prioritising and commissioning
Designing research
Managing research
Writing up and disseminating
impact on research
impact on implementation and change
impact of public involvement
reflecting on public involvement in research
journal article
Recruitment
Implementation and change

Date Entered: 2015/04/27

Date Edited: 2015/04/27