People with Experience (PwE) - user involvement

Ongoing activities

	Listening to voices workshop In December 2005, the workstream held a conference to collate and share good practice across the CETL partners in relation to the involvement of ‘people with experience’ in the design, delivery and assessment of curricula and service development and delivery. Find out more...
	Development of a Narrative Archive Listening to a first hand account of a person's life experience allows us to empathise in a very direct way with that person's story. Narrative approaches to interviews attempt to create a space where people can tell their stories as they wish with a minimum of direction or intervention by the interviewer. Find out more...
	Collation and synthesis of current literature The PwE work group intends to collate and synthesize the current literature available on user involvement, leading on to a journal article reporting on the findings. Find out more...
	Service Users and Carers as Partners in the Curriculum: an interactive staff development day In May 2006 the School of Health, Community and Education Studies at Northumbria University held a staff development day focusing on service user and carer involvement in the curriculum which was supported by CETL funding and attended by CETL partners. The event aimed to raise awareness of the involvement agenda and provide the opportunity to learn from the established good practice of colleagues and service users. Find out more...

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