Co-producing Research: A Community Development Approach

✍ Scribed by Sarah Banks (editor); Angie Hart (editor); Kate Pahl (editor); Paul Ward (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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
Images
Tables
Notes on contributors
Series editors’ foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Co-producing research: A community development approach
Introduction
The Imagine project
Co-production of research
A community development approach to co-producing research
Structure of the book
Overview of the chapters
Part I. Forming communities of inquiry and developing shared practices
2. Between research and community development: Negotiating a contested space for collaboration and creativity
Introduction
Exploring community development from the outside and inside: The work of Imagine North East
Debates about co-produced research and community development
Element 1: Studying community development from the outside – Creating the context for Imagine North East
Element 2: Doing community development projects and reflecting on them from the inside
Element 3: Co-inquiry – Bringing the outside and inside together, creating connections and new knowledge
Conclusions and lessons learned
3. A radical take on co-production? Community partner leadership in research
Introduction
The partnership and the project
The beginning of our research partnership
Leadership and organisational support
Unpredictability and expectations
Co-production
Sample design and recruitment
Research questions
Limits of co-production
Benefits and impact
Conclusions and lessons learned
4. Community-university partnership research retreats: A productive force for developing communities of research practice
Introduction
Participatory research: Intervention within a landscape of practice
Boundaries in participatory research
Challenges
Building a boundary-crossing community of practice
Discussion: Key enablers
Effects or outcomes of the retreats
Conclusions and lessons learned
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?
Introduction
Hoping, capturing, remembering, imagining: A conversation between arts workers and a university researcher
Conclusion
Conclusions and lessons learned
6. Co-designing for a better future: Re-imagining the modernist dream at Park Hill, Sheffield
Introduction
Park Hill regenerated
The history of Park Hill, a huge modernist mega-structure
Our collaborations in the context of the Imagine project, Park Hill and the museum
Five collaborative encounters
Conclusions and lessons learned
7. On not doing co-produced research: The methodological possibilities and limitations of co-producing research with participants in a prison
Introduction
Co-production: Specific challenges in prisons
‘Reading Resilience in a Prison Community’: The project that took place
Looking forward: Possibilities for co-produced research in prisons
Conclusions and lessons learned
Part III. Co-designing outputs
8. Co-production as a new way of seeing: Using photographic exhibitions to challenge dominant stigmatising discourses
Introduction
The Imagine Hillfields project
Hillfields’ history of territorial stigmatisation
A brief history of Hillfields
Imagine Hillfields: Community development and co-production
Photography and the Herbert Museum
Hillfields History Group
The Imagine Hillfields exhibition
Discussion
Conclusions and lessons learned
9. ‘Who controls the past controls the future’: Black history and community development
Introduction
Absence and exclusion
Black history
Objectivity and perspective
A Black perspective is a community perspective
Co-production and community
Conclusions and lessons learned
10. Conclusion: Imagining different communities and making them happen
Introduction
Challenges and rewards of co-production
Capturing the Imagine process
Conclusions and lessons learned
Index