Co-producing Research

A Community Development Approach

Banks, Sarah, Hart, Angie, Banks, Sarah, Hart, Angie

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781447340775
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project 'Imagine – connecting communities through research'. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With policy makers in mind, contributors discuss in clear and accessible language what co-production between community groups and academics can achieve. The book will be valuable for practitioners within community contexts, and researchers interested in working with communities, activists, and artists.

Table of contents

• CO-PRODUCING RESEARCH
• Contents
• List of images and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Series editors’ foreword
• Preface and acknowledgements
• 1. Co-producing research: A community development approach
• Part I . Forming communities of inquiry and developing shared practices
• 2. Between research and community development: Negotiating a contested space for collaboration and creativity
• 3. A radical take on co-production? Community partner leadership in research
• 4. Community-university partnership research retreats: A productive force for developing communities of research practice
• Part II. Co-creating through and with the arts
• 5. How does arts practice inform a community development approach to the co-production of research?
• 6. Co-designing for a better future: Re-imagining the modernist dream at Park Hill, Sheffield
• 7. On not doing co-produced research: The methodological possibilities and limitations of co-producing research with participants in a prison
• Part III. Co-designing outputs
• 8. Co-production as a new way of seeing: Using photographic exhibitions to challenge dominant stigmatising discourses
• 9. ‘Who controls the past controls the future’: Black history and community development
• 10. Conclusion: Imagining different communities and making them happen
• Index