Dear Phil
What about the neurodiversity (including autistic) community? There is a
local organisation in Brighton and a member of the Steering Committee of the
London Autistic Rights Movement works in London but lives in Brighton.
Yours
Adrian Whyatt, London Autistic Rights Movement Steering Group Member
On 22/07/2008, Phil Cotterell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I hope you don't mind me using the list to inform you about a one day
> conference taking a critical look at user involvement. Service user
> involvement
> is now official policy – what are the consequences of this? Has it lost
> its
> radical edge? Has it made a real difference? What has happened to
> autonomous user groups? Is there an expectation that users MUST get
> involved? The conference will address these and other questions from the
> perspective both of user activists, and researchers and others who study
> user
> movements and user involvement.
>
> The conference is on 24th April 2009 at Hove Town Hall, East Sussex.
> Speakers will draw on experience from the disability movement, mental
> health
> service users, older women's participation, and from involving people with
> learning difficulties in research.
>
> We would like to hear from you if you are interested in contributing to a
> workshop at the conference. Full details about the conference and
> information on how to make a proposal to contribute can be found below.
>
> http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sass/research/conferences/
>
> Alternatively enquiries should be directed to Sallie White:
> Health and Social Policy Research Centre,
> University of Brighton,
> Falmer,
> Brighton,
> BN1 9PH
>
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Tel: 01273 643480
>
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