Research Jargon Buster

2006 Conference

Research (and the NHS) can be full of jargon and very confusing when you don’t understand what the words mean. One group of people who found exactly that decided to write a jargon buster for other people trying to find out about and do research. The poster will describe the background to the Direct Impact Research Group and how the group came to develop their own jargon buster. It will show the jargon buster that the group wrote and which has been published in a peer reviewed journal.

The poster shows that research can be made open to everyone and can be shown and presented in an understandable way. Copies of the jargon buster will be available for people who want one.

The Direct Impact service user and carer research group was established in May 2001. Service users and carers have taken part in a number of research projects across the Trust and have developed their own research projects. The group aims to ensure that the views and experiences of people receiving mental health services (either directly or indirectly as carers) influence local research and development at all levels. They won a West Yorkshire Modernisation Award in 2004.