Jennifer Taylor, Vanessa Williams, Raymond Johnson, Ian Hiscutt, Maggie Brennan

We are not stupid

2007

This book explores the experiences of people with learning difficulties, how they are treated and what needs to change.

Fran Branfield, Peter Beresford

Making User Involvement Work: Supporting service user networking and knowledge

2006

This report provides an exploration of the state of service user networking and knowledge in the mid-2000s, with a focus on what impact these activities were having, what problems they faced and what impact they might have had for the future.

Michael Turner, Peter Beresford

Contributing on Equal Terms: Service user involvement and the benefits system

October 2005

This report documented the problems that service users encountered when receiving payments for participating in user involvement initiatives while also receiving state benefits.

Fran Branfield, Peter Beresford

The Green Paper on Adult Social Care: Independence, Well-being and Choice – A Service User Consultation

July 2005

This report brings together service users' views on the government's green paper on adult social care, Independence, Well-being and Choice.

Michael Turner, Peter Beresford

User Controlled Research: Its meanings and potential

2005

This report outlines the definition, nature and operation of user-controlled research as practiced at the time.

Enid Levin

Involving service users and carers in social work education

March 2004

This guide is designed to help service users, carers and providers of social work education and training work together on degree programmes.

Michael Turner

From outset to outcome: what people think of the social care services they use

2003

This report collects the overall findings of Shaping Our Lives' early development projects, carried out in conjunction with the Black User Group, Ethnic Disabled Group Emerged (EDGE), Footprints, Waltham Forest Black Mental Health Service User Group, and Service Users' Action Forum.

Michael Turner, Phil Brough, R.B. Williams-Findlay

Our Voice in Our Future: Service users debate the future of the welfare state

2003

This report describes the implementation and results of the Our Voice in Our Future project, set up in 1999 to identify key issues for service users in the future of welfare, rights and entitlement in social care and disability.

Peter Beresford

It’s Our Lives: A short theory of knowledge, distance and experience

2003

This book advocates for supporting peoples' empowerment in our 'knowledge society' through user involvement in research and through the valuing of the first-hand knowledge and experience they bring to the table.

Michael Turner

Shaping Our Lives project report 1998

1998

Read this report from 1998, about the origins of Shaping Our Lives. It covers how the project was established and our aims.