Whose lives and whose learning? Whose narratives and whose writing? Taking the next research and literature steps with experts by experience

Abstract

English This article reviews the barriers that impact on the involvement of ‘experts by experience’ in research and in publishing. It charts how their views are generally reported through others and how their roles are often limited to particular aspects of the research process. Drawing on work within several research and social work education projects, and journal editorship, the article also explores practices that contribute to further change in the relationships surrounding knowledge production and dissemination, extending the involvement of experts by experience and embedding it more securely in research practice and in academic and professional publishing.