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Research and Practice or What About the Wild?

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Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research

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In 2008, Dame Sally Davies put the question of ‘impact’ on the PPI agenda. This seemed straightforward but turned out to be complex. So, although PPI is a jumping off point for this chapter, the arguments are much broader. Here I look at studies that show on average it takes 17 years for academic work to ‘make a difference’. Then there is a question of a field of work that covers similar terrain but with absolutely no cross-referencing between the two—Science and Technology Studies (STS). The language is different; it concerns the relation between research in the lab and research in the ‘wild’. It engages with public organisations. The chapter opens out to an analysis of how mainstream academia reproduces itself and some of the implications in this for the development of survivor research.

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    To a non-academic this may seem very odd. Why should the number of times an article is cited by others tell you anything about its importance? The ‘missing link’ is that number of citations is taken as a marker of ‘quality’. Given that groups get together to cite each other’s articles, this is questionable on those grounds alone. But careers do hang on this.

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Rose, D.S. (2022). Research and Practice or What About the Wild?. In: Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research . The Politics of Mental Health and Illness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07551-3_4

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