Co-production & impact
Co-producing knowledge with the people it concerns: public involvement in health research, science shops, community-led housing research and how to evaluate it all.
- Co-Production of Knowledge: What It Means and How to Do It Well
The meanings of co-production in research, from Elinor Ostrom's public services work and Sheila Jasanoff's science studies to today's co-produced research projects; the NIHR principles for co-producing research, the four principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability science, and practical steps.
- Community-Led Housing Research: How Residents Study Their Own Neighbourhoods
A practical guide for residents, tenants' groups and community organisations who want to research housing in their own neighbourhood: forming a group and a question, using official data first, door-to-door condition and rent surveys, walking audits, photovoice and mapping, housing needs surveys for neighbourhood plans and community land trusts, ethics and safety for tenants, and turning findings into change.
- Evaluating Participatory Research: How to Show Process, Outcomes and Impact
How to evaluate participatory and community-based research: what to measure (partnership process, research quality, outcomes for people and policy), useful frameworks such as the CBPR conceptual model and the REF definition of impact, and practical methods including most significant change, ripple effects mapping and outcome harvesting.
- Patient and Public Involvement in Health Research: Standards, Methods and Reporting
What patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research means, how it differs from participation and engagement, the UK Standards for Public Involvement, James Lind Alliance priority setting, PCORI's engagement requirements in the US, the GRIPP2 reporting checklist, and how to involve people well.
- Science Shops: How Community Groups Get Free Research From Universities
What science shops are, how they began at Dutch universities in the 1970s and spread across Europe, how a community group can submit a research question, what students and supervisors deliver, and related models such as community-based research centres and Canada's Community-University Research Alliances.
