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Leadership as experts by experience in professional education

Curran, Tillie; Sayers, Ruth; Percy-Smith, Barry

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Authors

Tillie Curran

Ruth Sayers

Barry Percy-Smith



Abstract

A Knowledge Café approach was used to provide opportunities for participants to explore and reflect together on shared experiences of what it means to be an expert by experience, and the extent to which the role can be understood in terms of grounded concepts of ‘leadership’. Findings: The paper discusses how involvement as a service user emerged out of a personal drive to challenge and change appalling experiences of health and social care services. The paper goes on to illustrate this dynamic concept of leadership; the importance of networking with other users and carers, and, skills in enabling professionals to change. Argument and Conclusion: ‘Professional leadership’ is one of the domains of the UK Professional Capabilities Framework for social work defined as facilitated learning to include service users, carers and others involved.The call for a learning culture is not new and its application in complex practice and crisis points remains a current challenge. In contrast, the concept of Leadership discussed in this paper is grounded in experience and resonates with aspects of contemporary ethical, distributed and complex models of leadership but extends beyond organisations. Finally the paper raises the issue of learning opportunities available to experts by experience and the responsibilities for higher education and service providers to strengthen and support people in this complex role.

Citation

Curran, T., Sayers, R., & Percy-Smith, B. (2015). Leadership as experts by experience in professional education. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 186, 624-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1037559

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 13, 2015
Online Publication Date Apr 27, 2015
Publication Date May 13, 2015
Deposit Date Sep 5, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Print ISSN 1877-0428
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 186
Pages 624-629
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1037559
Keywords experts by experience, health and social care education, knowledge cafe methods
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/834489
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1037559

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