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Postgrad Research on Peer Support for Personal Budget Users

21 September 2015 by Val Bowen

Jon Hyslop is a postgraduate student at Oxford Brookes University researching the usefulness of peer support for people using personal budgets to plan their own health and social care support. He is looking for participants who have experience of providing peer support to personal budget users in a range of different settings. Peer support could mean working for a Disabled Persons User Led Organisation, Centre for Independent Living or similar organisation; this could be as a paid staff member, regular volunteer, or in some other role (perhaps as a self-employed support broker or co-ordinator of a self-help group). Participating would involve taking part in a group discussion, and completing a short background information questionnaire (this should take about 15 minutes). Three discussion groups are currently planned, with one taking place in Leeds on 14 October 2015. Participants will not be paid but it may be possible to pay people’s travel expenses if they can’t claim from elsewhere. More information about the research project and Jon’s contact details are on this web page

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