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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 ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.