What is this event about?

Co-production in health and social care research has the potential to increase equality, fairness and inclusivity in order to influence research for the better. Co-production is said to be both a means of evolving and improving public involvement in research and also of ensuring that research is more closely aligned and responds better to community needs and expectations.

Co-production can present challenges to established ways of doing research. It raises questions, for example about power sharing, ethics, intellectual property and how co-produced research should be shared across society.

We invite you to be part of the conversation that helps bring these tensions into the light and share suggestions of how to approach them so that we can learn to embrace and work with them and each other more effectively.

Who is this event aimed at?

1. Funders, sponsors and individuals who want to find out more and to encourage and foster high quality co-produced research

2. Health and social care researchers who want to get underneath the rhetoric of co-production

3. Community, charity and voluntary organisations who have direct experience of co-production which they can share with others

4. People (general public/individuals/ patients/ carers) outside of institutions and organisations who would like to understand more about co-production

5. People working in co-production in other relevant fields (e.g. public services) who have experiences/ expertise to share

Draft agenda for the day

Time Presentation/Session

10.00 Registration and tea/coffee

10.30 Welcome

Presenter: Scott Ballard-Ridley (Bridges Self-Management)

11.00 Tensions/challenge of co-production: setting the scene

Presenter: Peter Beresford (University of Essex, Shaping Our Lives)

12.00 Five parallel sessions exploring tensions in the following:

a) Publishing

Session organisers: Gill Green (University of Essex), Sophie Staniszewska (University of Warwick), David Bousfield, Sarah Rae and Lizzie Lloyd-Dehler

b) Can we co-produce the commissioning of health and social care research?

Session Organisers: Alison Faulkner, Doreen Tembo (National Institute for Health Research Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre) and Katalin Torok (National Institute for Health Research Central Commissioning Facility)

c) How do we act ethically in co-production? Does anyone 'own' what we co-produce?

Session organisers: Michelle Farr, Rosie Davies (National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West and University of Bristol) and colleagues

d) Sharing power in a project

Session organisers: Gabriella Spinelli (Brunel University London), Kate Pieroudis (Social Care Institute for Excellence) and colleagues

e) Evaluation and co-production: Embracing messiness

Session organisers: (UCL Centre for Co-production)

1.00 Lunch

1.45 Repeat the parallel sessions to allow delegates to attend two sessions of their choice

2.45 Comfort break

3.15 Reflections on the day and summing up

Presenter: Tina Coldham (INVOLVE)

4pm Close

Who has organised this event?

This event has been planned as a partnership between public contributors and INVOLVE; Centre for Public Engagement at Kingston University and St George's, University of London; UCL Centre for Co-production in Health Research; Bridges Self-Management; Department of Design, Brunel University.

The event is sponsored by the journal Frontiers in Sociology.

Venue Accessibility at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

1. Close to public transport links by bus with a directions link from their website. Buses 17, 259, 91

2. Parking for blue badge holders – book in advance to ensure availability

3. Building is step free and wheel chair accessible. Our rooms will be on more than one floor and there is accessible lift access

4. For catering, wheelchair users should be able to get the chair under a table

5. The reception desk has desks at different heights

6. Fire evacuation procedures are in place for people with a disability

7. There are induction loops in some but not all the rooms we have booked so we may need to match people with hearing loss to the right rooms

8. Lighting is not adjustable i.e. there are no dimmer switches. It’s either on or off.

9. Room temperature can be adjusted

10. There is a quiet space outside room 8 and on the ground floor – these are in public areas

11. The Centre welcomes guide/hearing/assistance and support dogs

12. Finally, if people have specific needs please get in touch and we can talk with the helpful team at NCVO. People are also welcome to visit in advance if they wish.