Tools & resources for co-production projects

The Not Another Co-Production Cookbook includes recipes for successful co-production as well as tasty meals from the co-production community.

This web resource is for anyone who is organising an event and wants to make it accessible. It is a practical handbook to make any event – whatever the size, whoever the participants – inclusive, so that everyone can take part in the way that best suits them.

This article discusses how knowledge is collaboratively produced in transdisciplinary research, highlighting the structured phases and significant aspects of this process. It also emphasizes the usefulness of the td-net toolbox, a collection of practical tools and methods designed to facilitate effective communication and collaboration among experts from various fields.

Written by autistic advocate Sarah O'Brien, this book gives a much-needed introduction into what autism is and removes the myths, stereotypes and stigma that surround it. Sarah provides insights into what to do after diagnosis and how to approach and navigate the process of informing those in your life, from your family and friends to your teachers or manager at work.

Over six months, Making Every Adult Matter worked alongside a group of people with experience of multiple disadvantage to define a shared approach to their work and to agree a theory of change that can help guide activities.

Toolkit created by the Centre for Loneliness Studies, a research centre based at the University of Sheffield, exploring the co-production of services for older people who are lonely and/or isolated.

A review of evidence about commonly used approaches and tools used to help measure person-centred care. It summarises broad themes in the literature and is designed for those who want to gain a quick overview of important ideas and frequently used tools.

By developing a circle of support around an individual – bringing people together around a person to share ideas about making a positive change in their lives. This change can be anything – from getting out and about more, to starting a new hobby or restarting an old one, or creating opportunities to spend more time with friends or family.

A free 6-week, in-depth course on how clinical trials work. Very thorough, including how clinical research is regulated in the United Kingdom and internationally.

A range of resources, from tutorial videos to articles, handouts to website links, that are useful for people interested in story curation and supporting others to use their stories to influence decision makers.

This workbook can help you plan why, when and how to involve the people you work with in evaluation.

Resource on how to create a visual abstract for the sake of making information accessible.

Develop your language and communication skills for a career in healthcare and learn new healthcare vocabulary in English. May be of interest to people working with Refugee Communities - especially those that want to be involved and they need help with language.

The Co-Production Star brings citizen power into public services to improve outcomes. The toolkit enables organisations commissioning and delivering public services and their local communities to map how much co-production is already taking place, improve existing co-production approaches, identify the potential for new approaches and scale out co-production across services and communities.

Designed to generate conversation, ideas and debate with people who coproduce regularly as well as providing an easy access starting point for those looking to learn. It was produced in collaboration with NHS England and coproduced with a team of amazing people from across the country.

A toolkit for co-production with young people for use by Wolverhampton service providers, commissioners and schools.

A toolkit exploring what co-design is and how you can assess the outcomes of your co-design and the quality of your processes, and how to review and learn from the data. A five-stage process offers a roadmap for planning and implementing your co-design, with tips and tools for each of the five stages.

The Housing LIN champions a variety of community-led approaches to housing for an ageing population. In line with this, they have published a range of materials to raise awareness and showcase latest practice. This online Directory seeks to enhance understanding and inspire local groups to co-produce innovative approaches to determine what might work in their community. It specifically builds on the Housing LIN’s concept of ‘CollaborAGE’.

As part of a recent research project, Voices of Colour wanted to ensure that the report and materials that they designed were representative of the Women of Colour that they have supported and that represent those that work within the sector. As a result of that, they created open-source icons that you can access and use as part of your projects, presentations etc.

This document provides a map of practical resources that can help when co-producing research in health and social care. It was produced as part of a project thinking about the challenges of doing co-production in health and social care research and is a guide for researchers, members of the public and health and social care practitioners.

Resources from SISCODE, a three-year project aiming to understand the co-creation phenomenon that is flourishing in Europe (in fab labs, living labs, social innovations, smart cities, communities and regions) and to analyse the context and conditions that support its effective introduction, scalability and replication.

This tool states that: it helps practitioners to review their own practice in relation to the following key components of co-production: assets, capacity, mutuality, networks, shared roles, catalysts

This Toolkit provides tools, activities, and ideas which researchers, project workers, and others working with young people can use and adapt to support the children and young people with whom they plan and undertake a research project and/or collaborate with adults on research and evaluation projects. The accompanying Guidance document 'Young Researchers: Guidance' provides background information and an overview of why and how to provide inclusive, good quality, and consistent training and support to young researchers of varying ages, interests, and needs.

The Co-Creating Welfare website offers a toolkit of training materials to help with the implementation of co-creation in the welfare sector.

In this document, the authors introduce co-production, explain how to use the toolkit, and preview all the tools and resources you will find within it. Whether you’re just starting out with co-production, or looking to refine your methods to meet a specific challenge, the authors hope you will find plenty of useful insights and inspiring stories in the toolkit.

This document collates a number of activities that the Q Community have found useful, and brings them together with some tips and ideas for people interested in applying these, or similar, methods themselves.

A toolkit for responsible research and innovation including resources to support co-production.

This guidance about payment of public contributors has been compiled for researchers who need to cost public involvement activities at any stage of the research process, anyone in a professional role involved in costing public involvement advising researchers on budgeting for involvement or who has an interest in the topic, public contributors who want to know how their involvement in research is costed, research advisors/managers who provide guidance to the research community about involvement, commissioners of research who invite funding applications from the research community reviewers and panel members who appraise research projects with costed involvement activities

This guide is for patients, carers and members of the public thinking about getting actively involved in research and you are being offered expenses and/or payment for your involvement. It offers answers to some frequently asked questions and suggests where you might get advice about your particular circumstances

A briefing for local authorities, charities and organisations that support people who use services and their carers, looks at how people and carers who receive state benefits can get involved in paid co-production, involvement, participation in health and social care, highlighting what they need to be aware of to avoid any loss of benefits.

A selection of policy documents, publications and information on issues affecting Gypsies and Travellers

This toolkit is designed by Homeless Link (a national membership charity for organisations working directly with people who become homeless in England) to help services take steps towards introducing co-production.

This Style Guide provides principles that can help ensure that written material considers the difficulties experienced by some dyslexic people and allows for the use of text to speech to facilitate ease of reading

The authors found that very few guides focus on the co-creation of research or target an audience from more than one sector. Many guides and tools concentrate on co-production between a sector and its users. This tool is designed to address the gap by focusing on co-creation by people engaged in what is commonly referred to as a ‘quadruple helix’.

A training activity which enables collective decision making

The Common Cause project aims to explore where and how common cause can be made between change agents in universities, communities and funding bodies who are looking to create an Arts and Humanities knowledge base that fully reflects the cultures and experiences of the UK’s Black and Minority Ethnic communities. Their resources collection aims to assist others in working in this area

The toolkit includes short videos from staff and patients involved in experience-based co-design (EBCD) projects to help bring to life the successes and intense rewards of running this type of improvement project.

This toolkit is intended to provide guidance on what a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project commonly looks like, how to work together and some questions to ask as you go. It does not provide advice on methods, as these will vary depending on what the research is about. There are many sources available for methods to use within a PAR research approach.

This framework and toolkit was developed by Turn2Us in order to have a strong foundation from which to do co-production. Having a purpose, principles and ways of measuring our work makes us more accountable to both our co-production partners and to those for which the services are designed.

A framework to support strategic leads, commissioners and managers responsible for mental health, to consider and bring about the cultural and behavioural changes that are required, in order for co-production to become the ‘norm’, in the design, commissioning and delivery of mental health services and supports.

A collection of training and resources for public involvement in research

This resource focuses on putting ideas into action. You don’t need to be an expert in co-production prior to planning a project. Work through the guide and see how you get on.

A model for co-production to set out how to bring about a culture of co-production and how to do it developed by the coalition for personalised care and its partners

A collection of tools, resources and blog articles about co-production

A collection of useful resources about all aspects of co-production, and signpost to more. Co-production Network Wales is based in Wales so the policy section is specific to their devolved legislative context, but the rest of the information should be widely relevant regardless of your geographical location

Bank of different methods of involving people in research and a online questionnaire that immediately ranks which ones would be more suited to your project and desired outcomes etc

33 ideas for problem solving/workshops/changing up the dynamics and coming up with different solutions

A training activity which enables the trainer or facilitator to draw on the knowledge of each person in the group