1. The Road to Collaboration Judy Beckett Louise Bryant Academic Unit of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, University of Leeds Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences

2. Partnership working Levels of user involvement Control: users design, undertake & disseminate result of study, users have decision making power. Collaboration: active ongoing partnership throughout the study, sharing of power in decision making. Consultation: lowest level of involvement, no sharing of power in decision making. From: Involve (2004), Faulkner (2004)

3. Acceptability & feasibility of an A&E advocacy service for self-harm Project idea initiated by Louise Pembroke: experience as a user of mental health and A&E services in relation to self- harm.

4. Research partners  Management group: Louise Pembroke, Allan House & Hilary Dyter (LMHAG)  Research Team: Louise Bryant (PI), Judy Beckett, Helen Buckland & Cath Sweeney (researchers with experience of using A&E following self-harm)  NHS partner: A&E consultant, Stephen Bush

5. Process of involvement  Management group agreed principles of involvement  Recruitment of staff with personal experience of self-harm  Training  Data collection (interviewing)  Data input, analysis and write-up  Evaluation of involvement

6. Evaluation of involvement  Telford et al (2004) Principles of successful consumer involvement in NHS research  Questionnaires developed by SWYMH NHS Trust – ‘staff’ and ‘service user’ versions Full report available from http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/psychiatry/index_p.html

7. Workshop activity

8. Reflection on the evaluation tools Principles of involvement (Telford et al)  Successful involvement requires more than adherence to the 8 principles  No reflection of the power relations in collaborative research

9. SWYMHT evaluation questionnaire  Responses are not anonymous  Personal reflections not independent evaluation