Peter Beresford
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4238258 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Beresford |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Beresford |
| FIRMA | BERESFORD P |
| AFILIACIONES | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6052-033X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 575 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Can a Service User Ever Be Just a Researcher and Should They Want to Be? Taking Account of Complex Identities in Practitioner Research
This discussion addresses complexities of identity and knowledge and their emerging importance as a result of growing interest in participation in social work and human services more generally. Thus lived experience and experiential knowledge are centrally addressed. The author's own overlapping identities are a starting point for this analysis, which highlights the importance of an intersectionalist approach to this development and the need to t…
BJSW Special Issue on the Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience
In April 2023, we published a BJSW special issue on the voice and influence of people with lived experience. People with lived and living experience expertise were involved in all stages and levels of the special issue as guest editors, peer reviewers, authors and contributors. In addition to academic papers where the lead author had lived experience of the research being undertaken, we published submissions in non-traditional formats, enabling c…
The Future of Social Care
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care policy and practice are in urgent need of radical reform and reassessment. Rising poverty, inequality and pressure on local communities internationally, are also increasing the urgent need for reform. Drawing on the cris…
Doing together
Recognising the limited literature detailing the practical application of co-production principles and practices within sport, exercise and health research, critical reflections on co-production principles and practice are shared here, drawing on two participatory action research (PAR) projects in the United Kingdom (UK). Co-production and PAR are distinguished, and their commonalities discussed. Both projects were facilitated by occupational the…
Introduction to Reflective Papers
The reflective papers section of the special issue on the voice and influence of people with lived experience includes think pieces, which aim to present an issue or an experience and explore it, while focusing on the author's viewpoint, understandings and insights.Papers in this section relate to social work in its broadest sense, and are designed to shed light on narratives, policy, practice, learning and discipline.The papers are constructed s…
Advancing the positives of personalisation / person-centred support
Introduction We should not be surprised if the issue of personalisation and personal budgets has come to be seen as controversial and contentious. What perhaps would be more concerning would be if it were treated as straightforward and without complexity. Indeed, that has been one of the significant features of political approaches to personalisation. It has gained support from all three main political parties and tended to be treated as unproble…
What Does “Good” Community and Public Engagement Look Like? Developing Relationships With Community Members in Global Health Research
Community and public engagement (CPE) is increasingly becoming a key component in global health research. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is one of the leading funders in the UK of global health research and requires a robust CPE element in the research it funds, along with CPE monitoring and evaluation. But what does “good” CPE look like? And what factors facilitate or inhibit good CPE? Addressing these questions would help ens…
The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support
Concern about the role social workers play in adult social care is long standing. Social workers, whose ethics commit them to supporting the empowerment of service users and to social justice, are required to work within a system that fails to secure either and is widely identified as in long-term crisis, despite a number of unsuccessful efforts to transform it. This article describes a detailed examination of the way one council operates. It rev…
Service User Involvement and Covid-19—An Afterthought
We are researchers and activists working in the field of service user involvement for many years in the UK and internationally who are concerned that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, years of progress in service user involvement have been unravelled by service users being left on the outside of key decisions and matters affecting their lives. Instead, we argue, they have become an afterthought. As authors, we combine both academic and service user …
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies
This chapter explores the relationship between madness and political conflict through the lens of mad studies. The author uses autoethnography and border thinking to shape an analysis of their experiences of madness and political conflict, primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina – a site relevant for such an exploration due to a unique commitment to community-based mental health services in this post-war country. The analysis highlights two related f…
Covid-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now being largely ignored in developing responses to it. This two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates how policymakers, health and social care practitio…
Covid-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice
Ambitious about co-production: adapting a
Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies
Participatory Ideology
This book examines for the first time the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies. Bringing together theory, practice and the relationship between participation, political ideology and social welfare, it offers a detailed critique of how the crucial move to more participatory approaches may be achieved
An occupational justice perspective on playing football and living with mental distress
Physical inactivity is a global public health priority, yet people living with a disability or long-term health condition, such as those who experience mental distress, continue to face inequalities and barriers to participation in sport and physical activity. These inequalities are considered an occupational injustice, in terms of participation in health enhancing occupations being restricted for these groups of people, despite them wanting to b…
Social Work
Social work is a relatively young helping profession that has been at the forefront of addressing political, social, and cultural changes. Its contested origins and combined control and support roles mean that it continues to have an uncertain status, but it has been a pioneer in developing participatory approaches to theory and methods. It now has a global role and reach and offers insights for understanding and engaging with emerging social iss…
Lost in the shadows
This article is a response to Oliver et al.’s Commentary ‘The dark side of coproduction: do the costs outweigh the benefits for health research?’ recently published in Health Research Policy and Systems (2019, 17:33). The original commentary raises some important questions about how and when to co-produce health research, including highlighting various professional costs to those involved. However, we identify four related limitations in their in…
Independent living for all
The 1948 welfare state settlement perpetuated social care as stuck in the Poor Law. However, its capacity to deliver short-term political expedients has allowed it to remain in place and defy decades of efforts to reform it, creating an intellectual and moral desert. The concept of independent living developed by the disabled people’s movement could fill the vacuum and become the driving vision for a sustainable system of social care based on rig…
Madness, Violence, and Power
Public Participation in Health and Social Care
Efforts to advance public participation in health and other policies have been associated with the production of many models and how-to-do-it guides for change. While these may have a helpful part to play in improving public and patient/user involvement in research, in this article it will be suggested that they tend to over-simplify things. Instead it is argued that an essential first step to advancing public participation in health is to put it…
Semantics of patient choice
Several stakeholders, including the National Survivor User Network and the British Psychological Society, have called for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to include an up-to-date review of patient experience research in the new depression guideline. In response, the Guideline Committee (GC) postponed publication, the guideline now due in February 2020. Yet the GC also stated it will not review patient experience resea…
Mad’, Mad studies and advancing inclusive resistance
‘Mad’ is a contentious term with which many service users/survivors feel uncomfortable. Yet it is the framework for a major new user-led challenge to bio-medical thinking about distress – Mad Studies – which is coming in for criticism for this and other identified shortcomings. Why has it adopted this controversial, conflict-ridden title? This article will explore current criticisms and raise the question of what Mad Studies’ strategy should be t…
Who gets to study whom
This article explores the ways in which hidden biases against survivor research can emerge through the anonymity of peer review processes. We describe how this occurs in part because of an epistemological clash between the positivist science underpinning much mental health and psychiatric research, but also because of norms surrounding who has the right to study whom, norms that survivor research challenges. We conclude with some suggestions for …
Independent living
Since 1996, people in the United Kingdom have been able to take cash to manage their own support to live life on terms equal to others – the concept at the core of independent living. This level of provision is now under attack. Levels of payments are being cut. Some disabled people are being forced into institutional care. Austerity is commonly blamed, but the facts do not support this. More likely is a change in attitudes. The positive sentimen…
Whose welfare
User Involvement in Research and Evaluation
This article explores the progressive and regressive potential of ‘user involvement’ in research and evaluation, with particular reference to social policy. There is growing political and research interest in user involvement. This article critically explores key different approaches to user involvement in research and relates them to consumerist and democratic models of involvement in policy and practice, management and development. The article …
Between exclusion and colonisation
The omnipresent psychiatric narrative of mental illness has always had its counter-narrative – the life stories of people labelled mad. The relationship between these two accounts has always been one of domination: mad voices have been – and continue to be – not heard, overwritten, silenced or even erased in the course of psychiatric treatment. As survivor researchers who have had these kinds of experiences, we wish to discuss parallels between t…
Service users' knowledges and social work theory
Journal Article Service users' knowledges and social work theory: conflict or collaboration? Get access P Beresford P Beresford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 4, August 2000, Pages 489–503, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.4.489 Published: 01 August 2000
Service Users and Practitioners Reunited
Journal Article Service Users and Practitioners Reunited: The Key Component for Social Work Reform Get access Peter Beresford, Peter Beresford Correspondence to Professor Peter Beresford, Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University, Osterley Campus, Borough Road, Osterley, Middlesex, TW7 5DU, UK. E-mail: [email protected] or Suzy Croft, Senior Social Worker, St John's Hospice, 60 Grove End Road, London, NW8 9NH, UK. E-mail: suz…
Commentary and Issues
This paper reviews the assumptions underlying traditional medical research and critiques the concept of ‘evidence-based practice’. In particular, it identifies and counters three basic tenets of this approach: the alleged need for objectivity in research, the notion of hierarchies of evidence and the primacy of systematic reviews. Instead, the paper argues for a new emphasis on ‘knowledge-based practice’, recognizing that the practice wisdom of h…
Selling individual budgets, choice and control
A range of national and international actors and networks have claimed to support the interests of people with learning difficulties over the last 30 years. This article examines their influence on UK policy for people with learning difficulties, with a particular focus on the recent policy shift towards individualised support and personalisation. Policy changes and developments within the UK are considered in the context of similar developments …
We Don't See Her as a Social Worker
This article draws on a large-scale UK qualitative research study of what service users want from specialist palliative care social work. The study included a diverse range of people with direct experience of such social work as patients with life-limiting illnesses and conditions and people facing bereavement. Service users included in the study generally valued such social work highly. The article focuses on two aspects of practice which were a…
User involvement, research and health inequalities
Placed in the context of broader discussions and developments about service user involvement in research and evaluation, this paper looks at the role that user involvement research may play in health inequalities research. It examines the pressures for and against such user involvement research, its different expressions and ideological relations, and what particular contribution it may have to offer in researching health inequalities. In conside…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Developing inclusive partnerships
Two major developments have been associated with the reorientation of United Kingdom health and social care policy and provision in recent years, placing a new emphasis on: quality and 'outcome' measures; and service user (and public and patient) involvement. These issues have become central to health and social care, representing expressions of the shift in political and ideological interest in public policy. However, these two strands of develo…
The politics of participation
Mad’, Mad studies and advancing inclusive resistance
‘Mad’ is a contentious term with which many service users/survivors feel uncomfortable. Yet it is the framework for a major new user-led challenge to bio-medical thinking about distress – Mad Studies – which is coming in for criticism for this and other identified shortcomings. Why has it adopted this controversial, conflict-ridden title? This article will explore current criticisms and raise the question of what Mad Studies’ strategy should be t…
Capacity Building and the Reconception of Political Participation
This paper explores a citizen-based approach to social work which may counter modern negative managerialist pressures on practice. It links the discourse concerning the growth of user involvement in public policy with the discourse about participation in political activity and suggests a role for social workers in supporting service users in initiatives such as self-help, campaigning and community action which offer a new interpretation of commun…
Widening cross-disciplinary research for mental health’
This current issues article is a brief critical examination of the recent Research Councils UK agenda and call for cross-disciplinary research in mental health. Our argument is based on the fact that patient and public involvement (PPI) is the only involvement and influencing strategy for service users and survivors in the agenda. Service user and survivor research as a discipline in itself remains unacknowledged. We conclude that service user an…
Mad studies and neurodiversity
In this paper we explore what we consider to be the shared concerns of those neurodivergent and/or mad-identified scholars and activists who are seeking to make space for themselves within the academy. In doing so, we consider what critical questions and action people involved in these could address together in ways that move beyond identity-based politics
Poverty and Disabled People
This article explores the relationship between poverty, disability and impairment in a global context. It challenges dominant critiques of poverty and disability, and explores the critiques, policy proposals and developments of the disabled people's movement to combat poverty. It offers an international perspective including the experience of both the North and South
Disabled People, Service Users, User Involvement and Representation
The issue of representation and representativeness has become central in debates about user involvement, disabled people and users of social care services. This article examines the emphasis of service agencies on the ‘unrepresentativeness’ of disabled people and service users; looks at how this is experienced by the latter and considers why the issue has gained such importance. It examines the different meanings attached to representation by rec…
Supporting the sustainability of Mad Studies and preventing its co-option
Mad Studies is emerging as a new force in ‘mental health’ discourse and developments. Given the way in which other would-be progressive developments associated with attempts to include experimental knowledge in this field, such as ‘recovery’ and ‘peer support’, have been subverted, this article considers whether it is possible for Mad Studies to avoid this. Drawing on developments in Disability Studies and in relation to the social model of disab…
Service user’
The term ‘service users’ has come to be increasingly used both in the UK and beyond to describe people on the receiving end of health, welfare and social care policies and services, including disabled people. This use of language is contentious. It has come in for criticism as presenting people in passive, consumerist terms. However, many disabled people, and others, use the term of themselves. This article seeks to develop discussion about this …
Service users, social policy and the future of welfare
This article considers the issue of public and service user involvement in social policy in particular relation to the increasing importance of populist approaches to welfare policy and ideology. It reports on the new emphasis on participation in social policy and the limits of involvement so far achieved in both the practice and discipline of social policy. It discusses the increasing commitment of welfare service users and their organisations t…
What Have Madness and Psychiatric System Survivors Got to Do with Disability and Disability Studies
(2000). What Have Madness and Psychiatric System Survivors Got to Do with Disability and Disability Studies? Disability & Society: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 167-172
Building on the original strengths of direct payments to create a better future for social care
Confidence in the prevailing In Control model of personal budgets in the United Kingdom is beginning to waver.This raises the question of 'where to next?' for social care.Will we be returning to the monolithic system that typified services at the turn of the millenniuma system that is deeply oppressive for the great majority who lack the support and confidence to escape it by accessing a direct payment to manage their own support system?The Care …
It's our problem too ! Challenging the exclusion of poor people from poverty discourse
Poverty discourse is characterised by the exclusion of people with experience of poverty. This has shaped the nature of both debate and policy responses. This discussion looks at the reasons for this ex clusion, the effects it has had and makes the case for an inclusive poverty discourse as the basis for the reconceptualisation of poverty and the development of more effective strategies to deal with it
User-involvement, citizenship and social policy
User-involvement is emerging as a key concern in social policy. So far debates have largely been framed in narrow social administration terms. The idea embraces conflicting conceptions of consumerism and self- advocacy. Here it is considered in the broader context of citivenship and human need. Beginning with people's own experience and ideas about them, the article explores their relationship with an empowering approach to involvement which enab…
Can personal budgets really deliver better outcome for all at no cost? Reviewing the evidence, costs and quality
Political recognition of the parlous state of English social care and the urgent need for radical reform led to calls for new policy approaches that address the two key problems it faced: inadequate funding and poor quality and inappropriate provision. The New Labour government was convinced that it had found a way of dealing with these two competing problems and it embarked on a policy, which has subsequently gained cross-party support. The cent…
Welfare pluralism
Concepts of 'welfare pluralism' and 'the mixed economy of welfare' have recently come to increasing prominence in social policy discussions. They are used to describe a reduced role for state intervention in welfare and greater emphasis an voluntary action informal and the marker. Criti ques from the left have so far largely concentrated on their legitimating role for the right. This paper suggests that more significantly, despite occasionally pr…
User-involvement, citizenship and social policy
User-involvement is emerging as a key concern in social policy. So far debates have largely been framed in narrow social administration terms. The idea embraces conflicting conceptions of consumerism and self- advocacy. Here it is considered in the broader context of citivenship and human need. Beginning with people's own experience and ideas about them, the article explores their relationship with an empowering approach to involvement which enab…
The politics of participation
Citizen Involvement
This book offers the first introduction and practical guide to increasing people's say and involvement in their lives, neighbourhood and services. It draws on a major study of initiatives to involve a
Disabled People, Service Users, User Involvement and Representation
The issue of representation and representativeness has become central in debates about user involvement, disabled people and users of social care services. This article examines the emphasis of service agencies on the ‘unrepresentativeness’ of disabled people and service users; looks at how this is experienced by the latter and considers why the issue has gained such importance. It examines the different meanings attached to representation by rec…
It's our problem too ! Challenging the exclusion of poor people from poverty discourse
Poverty discourse is characterised by the exclusion of people with experience of poverty. This has shaped the nature of both debate and policy responses. This discussion looks at the reasons for this ex clusion, the effects it has had and makes the case for an inclusive poverty discourse as the basis for the reconceptualisation of poverty and the development of more effective strategies to deal with it
Poverty and Disabled People
This article explores the relationship between poverty, disability and impairment in a global context. It challenges dominant critiques of poverty and disability, and explores the critiques, policy proposals and developments of the disabled people's movement to combat poverty. It offers an international perspective including the experience of both the North and South
Reply to
Income and wealth
Research Note
PETER BERESFORD, CLARE EVANS; Research Note: Research and Empowerment, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 5, 1 October 1999, Pages 671–67
What Have Madness and Psychiatric System Survivors Got to Do with Disability and Disability Studies
(2000). What Have Madness and Psychiatric System Survivors Got to Do with Disability and Disability Studies? Disability & Society: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 167-172
We Have Choices
This article connects and juxtaposes two important contemporary discourses in social policy: those of globalisation and of the 'welfare users' movements, particularly the movements of disabled people. It questions the widespread use of the globalisation process as a rationale for accepting that social policies should be subordinated to narrow economic constraints. It discusses the implications of social policies associated with globalisation for …
Service users' knowledges and social work theory
Journal Article Service users' knowledges and social work theory: conflict or collaboration? Get access P Beresford P Beresford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 4, August 2000, Pages 489–503, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.4.489 Published: 01 August 2000
Service users, social policy and the future of welfare
This article considers the issue of public and service user involvement in social policy in particular relation to the increasing importance of populist approaches to welfare policy and ideology. It reports on the new emphasis on participation in social policy and the limits of involvement so far achieved in both the practice and discipline of social policy. It discusses the increasing commitment of welfare service users and their organisations t…
Service Users
Journal Article Service Users Get access Peter Beresford Peter Beresford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 August 2001, Pages 629–630, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/31.4.629 Published: 01 August 2001
User Involvement in Research and Evaluation
This article explores the progressive and regressive potential of ‘user involvement’ in research and evaluation, with particular reference to social policy. There is growing political and research interest in user involvement. This article critically explores key different approaches to user involvement in research and relates them to consumerist and democratic models of involvement in policy and practice, management and development. The article …
Genes Spell Danger
The focus of this discussion is disability, culture and identities in relation to bioethics and mental health service users/survivors. Taking account of the inclusion of mental health service users/survivors within the administrative categories of disability, this article argues for debates about bioethics and disabled people to address and include the perspectives of psychiatric system survivors, and their concerns about psychiatry and bioethics…
Mental health service users and disability
English Mental health service users/survivors are subject to both mental health and disability policies, yet there appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policy and disability politics to them. Mental health policy, which has always had powers to restrict their rights, is now increasingly associating mental health service users/survivors with ‘dangerousness’ and focusing on them as a threat to ‘public safety’. Mental health serv…
Service Users and Practitioners Reunited
Journal Article Service Users and Practitioners Reunited: The Key Component for Social Work Reform Get access Peter Beresford, Peter Beresford Correspondence to Professor Peter Beresford, Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University, Osterley Campus, Borough Road, Osterley, Middlesex, TW7 5DU, UK. E-mail: [email protected] or Suzy Croft, Senior Social Worker, St John's Hospice, 60 Grove End Road, London, NW8 9NH, UK. E-mail: suz…
Older people's participation in political activity—making their voices heard
The discrimination that older people in the UK experience is replicated in barriers restricting their participation in political activity. Thus, the social exclusion that many older people encounter is compounded by political exclusion, including, significantly, exclusion from political debates and activities addressing issues that could influence outcomes in their interests across a range of policy areas. Drawing on findings from research, this …
Service user’
The term ‘service users’ has come to be increasingly used both in the UK and beyond to describe people on the receiving end of health, welfare and social care policies and services, including disabled people. This use of language is contentious. It has come in for criticism as presenting people in passive, consumerist terms. However, many disabled people, and others, use the term of themselves. This article seeks to develop discussion about this …
Redistributing profit and loss
A major feature of government public and social policy over the past 25 years has been a shift in emphasis from state to market. With little supporting evidence, the positives of the market have been contrasted with the negatives of state intervention. This article explores the background to this development and suggests that under ‘globalization’ the trend has been for the market increasingly to be freed to be profitable and for the state to bea…
Capacity Building and the Reconception of Political Participation
This paper explores a citizen-based approach to social work which may counter modern negative managerialist pressures on practice. It links the discourse concerning the growth of user involvement in public policy with the discourse about participation in political activity and suggests a role for social workers in supporting service users in initiatives such as self-help, campaigning and community action which offer a new interpretation of commun…
Developing inclusive partnerships
Two major developments have been associated with the reorientation of United Kingdom health and social care policy and provision in recent years, placing a new emphasis on: quality and 'outcome' measures; and service user (and public and patient) involvement. These issues have become central to health and social care, representing expressions of the shift in political and ideological interest in public policy. However, these two strands of develo…
Commentary and Issues
This paper reviews the assumptions underlying traditional medical research and critiques the concept of ‘evidence-based practice’. In particular, it identifies and counters three basic tenets of this approach: the alleged need for objectivity in research, the notion of hierarchies of evidence and the primacy of systematic reviews. Instead, the paper argues for a new emphasis on ‘knowledge-based practice’, recognizing that the practice wisdom of h…
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