Can a Service User Ever Be Just a Researcher and Should They Want to Be? Taking Account of Complex Identities in Practitioner Research.
This discussion addresses complexities of identity and knowledge and their emerging importance as a result of growing interest in participation in social work and human services more generally. Thus lived experience and experiential knowledge are centrally addressed. The author's own overlapping ide...
| Publicado en: | Research on Social Work Practice Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 626 - 632 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul2026
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