Partnership working between university researchers and self-advocacy organizations: 'A way forward for inclusion?'in England and 'Fine feathers make a fine bird'in Flanders.

This article gives accounts of differing experiences of self-advocate partnerships in research with universities in England and Flanders. In England the partnership grew up within a local People First group built upon a personal working relationship with one support person. It is focused almost exclusively on empirical research and, because it is aimed at influencing policy and practice, questions of funding and control are to the fore.