ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at students' evaluation of service users' involvement in social work education within a comparative action research project carried out between an English university and an Israeli one. This collaborative project focused on evaluating the understanding of such an involvement as well as its potential application of SUCI to social work practice. The chapter outlines the rationale behind the involvement of service users in social work education, its development in the two countries and the two universities. It then focuses on the involvement of service users as co-researchers in the project, the evaluative approach taken, key findings, and lessons to be learned from this cross-country project across social welfare. Students view SUCI as an alternative model of social work, one that has the potential to significantly improve current practice, by enabling a greater emphasis on the positive qualities service users have and of the more equal and productive relationships that may emerge as a result.
