Co-production: a kind revolution
Co-production: a kind revolution
Carnegie UK (CUK) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) INVOLVE held a meeting on the co-production of research, how we work together on equal terms. We brought together public contributors and individuals from organisations focused on research. We wanted to discuss how co-production could work in research, how it could be seen as business as usual, and to think through the barriers that stop us from working together, as well as the things that can help us move forward. While we agreed that the idea of working together is important, we recognised there are still many challenges to co-production being seen as a normal activity in research and the development of a 'business case' to persuade others is still needed. We also considered the wider civic roles that Universities are adopting as important in helping co-production become normal practice. Discussion focused on issues such as power and how it works in research. We recognised that we also need to create the right conditions for co-production, changing research culture so it becomes kinder, with a focus on the development of relationships. We also recognised the need for enough time for honest, high quality conversations between patients, public contributors and researchers that take account of how power works in research. Co-production was seen as a societal 'good,' helping us live well by undertaking research together that benefits the health of the public. We also identified a range of ways we could move co-production forward, recognising we are on a journey and that current societal changes brought about by Covid-19 may result in us being more radical in how we rethink the ways we want to work in research.
Co-production, Kindness, Patient and public involvement
Staniszewska, Sophie
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Hickey, Gary
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Coutts, Pippa
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Thurman, Ben
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Coldham, Tina
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5 February 2022
Staniszewska, Sophie
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Hickey, Gary
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Coutts, Pippa
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Thurman, Ben
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Coldham, Tina
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Staniszewska, Sophie, Hickey, Gary, Coutts, Pippa, Thurman, Ben and Coldham, Tina
(2022)
Co-production: a kind revolution.
Research Involvement and Engagement, 8 (4), [4 (2022)].
(doi:10.1186/s40900-022-00340-2).
Abstract
Carnegie UK (CUK) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) INVOLVE held a meeting on the co-production of research, how we work together on equal terms. We brought together public contributors and individuals from organisations focused on research. We wanted to discuss how co-production could work in research, how it could be seen as business as usual, and to think through the barriers that stop us from working together, as well as the things that can help us move forward. While we agreed that the idea of working together is important, we recognised there are still many challenges to co-production being seen as a normal activity in research and the development of a 'business case' to persuade others is still needed. We also considered the wider civic roles that Universities are adopting as important in helping co-production become normal practice. Discussion focused on issues such as power and how it works in research. We recognised that we also need to create the right conditions for co-production, changing research culture so it becomes kinder, with a focus on the development of relationships. We also recognised the need for enough time for honest, high quality conversations between patients, public contributors and researchers that take account of how power works in research. Co-production was seen as a societal 'good,' helping us live well by undertaking research together that benefits the health of the public. We also identified a range of ways we could move co-production forward, recognising we are on a journey and that current societal changes brought about by Covid-19 may result in us being more radical in how we rethink the ways we want to work in research.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 January 2022
Published date: 5 February 2022
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The authors are grateful to a wide range of co-production researchers and practitioners, on whose work we have built, and to the organisations that made this paper possible: Carnegie UK, NIHR INVOLVE and the University of Warwick. But most of all, we would like to thank the 22 people who accepted our invitation to a roundtable conversation on co-production in 2019, who participated in a spirit of openness and curiosity, and who shared ideas that feel as salient now as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. SS is part funded by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands, the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) Gastrointestinal Infections, and the NIHR HPRU Genomics and Enabling data.
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Co-production, Kindness, Patient and public involvement
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