Guidance on how to co-produce

In this article, the authors set out recommendations for co-producing research, emphasizing the importance of creating connections, or "build bridges," between researchers and various communities. The authors share important rules for effective teamwork and suggest the need for more money, support, and adaptability to make sure this collaborative method is ethical and makes a real impact.

This article presents a scheme for understanding different kinds of co-production, and the different tradeoffs they entail. In so doing, they highlight 6 modes of co-production that emerge when particular design choices are made.

This handbook and practical guide is the result of eight years of collaboration between the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and local authorities. It sets out a model for designing, commissioning and delivering services s that they focus on commissioning for 'outcomes', promote co-production, and promote social value.

This document is an introduction for applying co-production in social prescribing settings. It outlines what social prescribing and co-production are, and the philosophies and values of both, and how they complement each other. It looks at some key ingredients to create effective social prescribing through co-production, and suggests a ‘recipe’ which puts them into practice. This document was created through conversations with the National Academy for Social Prescribing Co-Production Group.

A handy how-to for any service users or survivors thinking about getting involved with their local NHS trust or research organisation, created by a critical theorist and activist collective. Recovery In The Bin is a a user-led group for Mental Health Survivors and Supporters who are fed up with the way co-opted ‘recovery’ is being used to discipline and control those who are trying to find a place in the world.

A quick guide on the meaning, differences and benefits of co-production, collaboration, and involvement. Tis strategy that has been co-produced by people with lived experiences of mental health, drug & alcohol challenges, and learning disabilities, carers, service staff, and those that fund services.

If you’re using co-production to involve people in the design of services that impact them and their communities, then this Toolkit is for you. There are 3 main elements to the Stronger Together Toolkit, all of which can be accessed here on this webpage.

This visual guide offers you a map of the landscape of participatory research. Instead of a loop or a one-way road, we think about participatory research as a formation of Islands where co-researchers (co-travelers) might be exploring similar or different landscapes (issues and concerns) at the time when we are together on this journey.

Experience-based design using patient and staff experience to design better healthcare services. The first section is a guide which provides an overview of the EBD (experience based design) approach. The second part of the publication contains tools and advice which will help you to put the EBD approach into practice.

This guide is designed to give you the practical tools you need to develop an involvement programme and approach which places your service users at the heart of your organisation. It provides a structured and accessible introduction to involving people with lived experience of criminal justice in your work, including examples of good practice, checklists, top tips and signposting to further information and support.

A step-by-step guide that will get you solving problems like a designer, including 57 clear-to-use design methods for new and experienced practitioners, and from-the-field case studies of human-centered design in action.

This Guidance was commissioned to provide Barnardo’s researchers, project workers and others with clear guidance to use when supporting children and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds to be young researchers.

Webpage linking to different resources by the Scottish Community Development Centre.

A short e-book from a design agency in Canada on co-design sessions that consider participants’ language barriers.

This practice guide explores how to co-produce research, and highlights ways in which the concept of co-production has specific relevance and importance for academics, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and communities within humanitarian settings.

Advice about co-production which considers the policy context within which approaches to co-production are being developed, explores what the term co-production means (the paper looks at definitions of co-production within health and social care and the principles underpinning co-production) and highlights different approaches to involving people.

Guidance on what co-production is and how to do it.

Based on the findings of a recent study of co-production as part of an EU research project, in this blog the author suggests efforts to facilitate co-production should focus on enabling the creation of academic identities that allow for authentic collaboration with research stakeholders

This guide is about how to do co-production. It was co-produced with people who draw on care and support, carers, support providers and staff from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

This guidance sets out to provide a first step in moving toward clarity about what we mean by co-producing a research project. It explains the key principles and features of co-producing a research project and suggests ways to realise the principles and key features.

This report draws together the learning from various events and discussions. It presents an outline of what is holding back co-production and identifies some possible solutions to break down these barriers and promote future progress.

Training modules and handouts developed for a three-week training workshop on Community-Based Participatory Research held in June 2006 for community based workers in Tando Jam, Sindh, Pakistan.

Reflective questions to help everyone think about how they can work with people more equally through a process of co-produced research.