The UCLan community engagement and service user support (Comensus) project
Valuing authenticity, making space for emergence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19506101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Soo Downe (0000-0003-2848-2550, University of Lancashire), Mick Mckeown (0000-0003-3599-2153, University of Lancashire), Eileen Johnson (0000-0001-8324-0568), Eileen Morgan Johnson, Comensus Community Involvement Team (University of Lancashire), Lidia Koloczek (University of Lancashire), Angela Grunwald, Lisa Malihi‐Shoja |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 392-406 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Expectations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6513 • E-ISSN: 1369-7625 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2007.00463.x |
| PMID | 17986075 |
| OpenAlex | W2008453777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
Objective To develop and evaluate service user, carer and community involvement in health and social care education. Background Despite the high policy profile of involvement issues, there appear to be no published accounts of schemes that have used a systematic whole‐faculty approach to community engagement in health and social care higher education. Focus of this paper The set up and early development of a faculty‐wide community engagement project. Setting and participants Staff from the faculty of health in one University, local service users and carers and community group project workers and local National Health Service (NHS) and public sector staff. Design Participatory action research including document review, field notes, questionnaires and interviews. Analysis Thematic analysis. The emerging themes were tested by seeking disconfirming data, and through verification with stake‐holders. Results Prior to the study, there were examples of community engagement in the participating faculty, but they occurred in specific departments, and scored low on the ‘ladder of involvement’. Some previous attempts at engagement were perceived to have failed, resulting in resistance from staff and the community. Despite this, an advisory group was successfully formed, and project framing and development evolved with all stake‐holders over the subsequent year. The four themes identified in this phase were: building accessibility; being ‘proper’ service users/carers;moving from suspicion to trust: mutually respectful partnerships as a basis for sustainable change; and responses to challenge and emergence. Conclusions Successful and sustainable engagement requires authenticity. Many problems and solutions arising from authentic engagement are emergent, and potentially challenging to organizations
Citizen journalism · Community engagement · Focus group · Medical education · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Public engagement · Public relations · Qualitative research · Service-learning · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Engineering · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Doing and Writing Qualitative Research
A Social Psychology of Protest
‘Taking off the suit’
Patient, consumer, client, or customer
Conceptualising successful partnerships
Disabled People, Service Users, User Involvement and Representation
Service user’
Action Research and Minority Problems
Partnership in health and social care
Social movements in health
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |