The merging of knowledge: empowering and enabling

There is increasing focus in research and policy making on the importance of the expertise brought by those with lived experience of poverty. What happens when experts by experience and experts through study and practice come together to merge their knowledge on poverty? And what implications does such a merging of knowledge have for research and policy?

By Elena Lasida

Introduction by Fran Bennett

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The merging of knowledge: empowering and enabling

Issue: Issue 170 (Autumn 2021)

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