Users Perspective in Research

Degree: 1
Year: 3
Study program: Social work

Holder: Petra Videmšek
Collaborator(s): Tadeja Kodele

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Subject content:
  • Development of the user perspective.
  • The meaning of active participation and the consequences of the absence of users in the processes of research, information collection and procedures management.
  • User research as the guarantee of their empowerment.
  • Principles of team work.
  • User training.
  • Reciprocal learning: expert, researchers and user co-operation.
  • International experience in user research. Strategies of user inclusion in decision-making processes.
  • Principles of emancipatory research (the viewpoint of indigenous people, emic-etic, the "bottom-up"; perspective, understanding and knowing the user position, reflexivity, a critical attitude).
  • Valuing the individual's experience.
  • Ethical dilemmas in research of excluded social groups.
  • Outreach.