ABSTRACT
Telford, Beverley, Cooper, and Boote identify the provision of training for service users about research methodology as a key principle for successful patient and public involvement in research. Active involvement may take the form of consultation, collaboration or user control. More recently, there has been some interest in exploring the possibilities for forensic service user involvement in monitoring and feedback roles within penal institutions but such involvement in research remains sparse. The researcher had prepared bespoke booklets with the logos of the University and the host National Health Service (NHS) mental health trust on the cover and a range of instructions and scales for the prisoner to record the variables under study. In 2006, Sir David Cooksey published a report commissioned by the Treasury to investigate the impact of research funding; the report highlighted excessive levels of waste arising from the lack of uptake of publically funded research.
