Public Involvement and Community Engagement in Applied Health and Social Care Research

Critical Perspectives and Innovative Practice

William McGovern, Hayley Alderson, Bethany Kate Bareham, Monique Lhussier

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781836086819
• eBook ISBN: 9781836086802
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

This edited collection brings academics, researchers and practitioners/public from a range of subject and discipline areas together with a view to providing insight into critical concerns and innovative practices on the process of developing and delivering Public Involvement and Community Engagement (PICE work) in a range of research settings.

Delivering powerful reflections and insights from professional groups, marginalised communities and people with lived experience as research partners/participants each chapter will present from "real life" illustrative practice examples and each will engage in a sympathetic critical appraisal of a concern or innovation. Chapters will also provide methodological, theoretical and practice insight into the process of PICE work and each will explore the implications and lessons that can be learned in and across different subject and discipline areas. It is important to recognize here that this is a collection of work that will call for intuitive and informed professional practice that creates space for individuals to reflect on their own practice (involvement) and how they consider, conceptualise, learn, manoeuvre, and position themselves in relation to "doing PICE work".

Bridging a lack of knowledge and concern about the more critical and innovative aspects of PICE work in relation to representation, epistemic injustice, positionality, ethically informed and sustainable practice, this is pioneering reading for those who are interested in or concerned with the ever-pertinent issue of public involvement and community engagement in applied research practice.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction to PICE Work and Themes Within the Collection
• Section 1 International, Regional, and Local Perspectives of PICE Work
• Chapter 1 International Community-involved LGBTQ+ Health Research: Multidisciplinary Reflections and Strategies
• Chapter 2 Co-production of a Regional Approach to Community Engagement in Health and Care Research in the North East and North Cumbria
• Chapter 3 From Tokenism to Trust: Transforming Public Engagement in Local Authority Research and Practice Through Health Determinants Research Collaborations
• Section 2 Creativity and Innovation, Perspectives and Opportunities in PICE Work
• Chapter 4 Engaging with the Theory and Practice of Creative PICE Work
• Chapter 5 The World Café Approach: Partnering Parents Towards a Deeper Understanding of Child Transitions
• Chapter 6 Co-producing Better Mental Health Research with Young Researchers in Educational Establishments
• Chapter 7 Community Asset Mapping: An Ethical, Strength-based Approach to Co-production and Inclusion
• Chapter 8 Applying a Public Health Lens to Co-production with the Military Connected Community
• Section 3 PICE Work in Marginalised Communities
• Chapter 9 Embedding Trauma-informed Principles Within Involvement and Co-production Activities with People Experiencing Homelessness
• Chapter 10 Co-production from the Perspectives of People Who Have Experienced Homelessness
• Chapter 11 Collaborating to Explore the Reproductive Health and Social Care Needs of Women Who Use Drugs: A Doctoral Research Study
• Chapter 12 A Queer Engagement: Navigating the Twists and Turns of Public Involvement and Multiple Marginalisation
• Chapter 13 ‘Tinkering with Care’ in Public Involvement and Community Engagement with People with Experience of Problematic Alcohol and/or Drug Use
• Chapter 14 Co-production in Refugee Research: Navigating Power Dynamics
• Section 4 Parents–Carers–Adolescents and Children’s Perspectives of PICE Work
• Chapter 15 Involving Children and Young People Who Experience Parental Substance Use in Research
• Chapter 16 Am I a Carer? Avoiding Research Fatigue and Labelling in Health and Social Care Research
• Chapter 17 Let’s Hear It from the Girls: Shining a Light on the Value of PICE in Alternative Educational Provision
• Chapter 18 The Young Dads Collective: Sustaining PICE Through a Qualitative Longitudinal and Participatory Research Programme
• Chapter 19 Co-producing Research with Care Experienced Young Adults and Social Work Professionals
• Index