Research outputs are listed below

Garner, J., Holmes, S., Mallen, E., Melling A., Tayya, R. (2025). Is anybody listening? Co-creating a measure of impact for service user and carer involvement in nurse education. Participatory Research Methods, Scholastica.
Service user and carer co-production with staff and students: experiences from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at UCLan. Keynote presentation at Co-production conference, Roehampton University, 12 September 2023.
Co-producing nurse education with academics, students and service users: reflections from a collaborative team at UCLan. Presentation at Advance HE Teaching and Learning conference, Keele University July 2023.
Felstead, K., Johnson, J., Melling, A. & the Comensus collective (2023) -The Power to Change. British Journal of Social Work 53 (3).
Garner, J., Gillaspy, E., Smith, M., Blackburn, C., Craddock, A., Drew, T., Holmes, S., Jones, R., & Anonymous Service User. (2022). Co-producing nurse education with academics, students, service users and carers: lessons from the pandemic. British Journal of Nursing, 31:16, 854-860, DOI 10.12968/BJON.2022.31.16.854https://doi.org/10.12968/BJON.2022.31.16.854
Gordon, M., Gupta, S., Thornton, D., Reid, M., Mallen, E., & Melling, A. (2020). Patient/service user involvement in medical education: A best evidence medical education (BEME) systematic review: BEME Guide No. 58. Medical teacher, 42(1), 4-16.
Lunn, A. M., Urmston, A., Seymour, S., & Manfrin, A. (2020). Patient as teacher sessions contextualize learning, enhancing knowledge, communication, and participation of pharmacy students in the United Kingdom. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 17.
Downe, S., McKeown, M., Johnson, E., Comensus Community Involvement Team, Comensus Advisory Group, Koloczek, L., Grunwald, A. & Malihi-Shoja, L. (2007)
The UCLan Community Engagement and Service User Support (Comensus) project: Valuing authenticity making space for emergence. Health Expectations, online early Hopkins, R., Cox, P. & McKewon, M. (2007)
Making sense of health and social care service user participation in a university setting: the relevance of social movement theory.
12th International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest,, Manchester, April 2-4. McKeown, M. (2007)
Alienation & Redemption: staff and survivor alliances in a context of mental health service user involvement 21st Annual National Mental Health Conference. Transforming practice: ideas into reality. Robinson College Cambridge, July 15-16. Liberato, D., McClennahan, P., Shoja, L. & McKeown, M. (2007)
The Comensus Project: Service User and Carer Involvement in Higher Education. 21st Annual National Mental Health Conference. Transforming practice: ideas into reality. Robinson College Cambridge July 15-16. Shoja, L., Collier, L., Parmar, H. & McKeown, M. (2006)
The Comensus Project: service user and carer involvement in higher education (paper)National Mental health Nursing Conference, Shaping mental health nursing for the 21st century. Cambridge, July 17-18. Shoja, L., Solanki, N. Coxhead, J. & McKeown, M. (2006)
The Comensus Project (paper).5th National INVOLVE Conference, Herts, September 6-7. Amed, W., Shoja, L., Lunt, L. &. McKeown, M. (2006)
The Comensus Project (invited contribution). Building a Platform for Change. Cambridge, September 14-15. McKeown, M. & Spandler, H. (2006)
11th International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester, April 19-21. Alienation and redemption: the potential for alliances with mental health service users (paper). McKeown, M. (2005)
Mental Health Service User Involvement Partnerships (invited contribution). David Brandon Memorial Event. Preston, March 3. McKeown, M., Shoja, L. (2005)
The Comensus Project. Partnerships for Healthy Places. Delivering wellbeing, tackling inequalities: healthy settings in action. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, September 6-7 Solanki, N, Liberato, D., Koloczek, L. & Shoja, L. (2005)
Faculty-wide community engagement and service user support. International ‘Where’s the Patient Voice’ Conference, UBC Vancouver, November 3-5. Johnson, E., Parmar, H., McKeown, M. (2004)
Comensus – community engagement and support project. 4th National INVOLVE Conference. Nottingham, November 10-11. Johnson, E. (2004)
The Comensus Project. Unlocking the potential partnerships in health and social care conference, Wrexham November 5.

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