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SUMMARY:Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experienc
 e in the mental health context - Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham
 )
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CONTACT:Jacob Stegenga
DESCRIPTION:(Co-authored with Michael Larkin and Michele Lim)\n\nExpertise
  is afforded – by people\, questions\, culture\, expectations\, power re
 lations and systemic structures. These affordances can be changed – by s
 kilful facilitation\, preparation and expectation-setting and by thoughtfu
 l configuration of systems and structures – people's capacity for provid
 ing expert insight can be scaffolded or obstructed. If expertise is situat
 ed in this way\, then we should choose to create environments and relation
 ships in which different perspectives can be heard and understood and the 
 people providing those perspectives can be seen as experts.\n\nWhat makes 
 someone an expert? Some form of relevant knowledge or experience is necess
 ary for expertise but not sufficient for it. Expertise is built upon knowl
 edge or experience\, but it arises from extensive efforts in seeking to un
 derstand something\; it is borne out of a 'hard-earned' familiarity with t
 he contours of a particular set of problems.\n\nSo\, are experts-by-experi
 ence real experts? The objections raised to expertise-by-experience identi
 fy general worries about expertise in general\, in terms of how to ensure 
 objectivity\, how to deal with disagreement\, and whether the information 
 or perspective provided is evidence for the claims the expert supports. Ul
 timately\, one way to overcome some of these challenges to the authority o
 f experts is to see expertise as something that emerges from a collective 
 and dialogical pursuit that involves a group reflection on evidence.\n\nOn
 e way to bypass this constant requirement to justify the seat at the table
  for experiential insights is to talk about perspectives in dialogue rathe
 r than expertise. A perspective is a way of referring to how something app
 ears from a particular standpoint\, which acknowledges the relevance of th
 at standpoint to what is foregrounded. A dialogue is a means of sharing in
 sights\, carried out to support reciprocal understanding. How do perspecti
 ves in dialogue work? Codesign and coproduction approaches encourage persp
 ective taking and use group processes and facilitation to support communit
 y consensus building. Here we will offer an example of successful perspect
 ives in dialogue from our own research.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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