ABSTRACT
In the last decade or so, there has been a shift in health-related research toward recognizing the importance of user/patient participation. In the UK, the Research Council’s UK Public Engagement with Research Strategy (2014) has made explicit its expectation that participants will play a greater role in shaping research and having access to the knowledge generated. This shift means that more participatory approaches to research – in which the power relationships between researcher and researched are more equal – are increasingly coming to the fore. As a consequence we have seen an increase in narrative research – of which narrative correspondence forms one strand.
