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The importance of actively involving users of welfare services in research has increasingly gained ground in both public policy documents and the academic literature. User involvement is increasingly considered a precondition to obtain external funding for research projects. The discussion about service user involvement in research should primarily be transformed into a debate about forms of collaboration and how user involvement and co -research could be implemented in ways where both researchers and users could benefit and further improve the development of welfare services.