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Colin Todhunter Undertaking Action Research: Negotiating the Road Ahead

Colin Todhunter is a freelance social researcher based in Liverpool and has conducted research into illegal drugs, community development and drugs prevention, and health and community care. He has previously worked for the Health and Community Care Research Unit and the Centre for Community and Educational Policy Studies at Liverpool University, and the School of Law and Applied Social Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. His freelance work has been undertaken for the Central Home Office Drugs Prevention Initiative and local Home Office teams. • In a period of officially endorsed consumerism within social policy which stresses the role of “community participation”, “user-led” provision and “user involvement”, the potential for the collective expression of discontent has (unwittingly) been thrown open (Pilgrim et al, 1997). University of Surrey Sociology at Surrey