Co-producing research: a community development approach

Table of content

Chapter 1: Co-producing research: A community development approach, Sarah Banks, Angie Hart, Kate Pahl, Paul Ward
Part I: Forming communities of inquiry and developing shared practices
Chapter 2: Between research and community development: Negotiating a contested space for collaboration and creativity, Sarah Banks, Andrea Armstrong, Anne Bonner, Yvonne Hall, Patrick Harman, Luke Johnston, Clare Levi, Kath Smith and Ruth Taylor
Chapter 3: A radical take on co-production? Community partner leadership in research, Susanne Martikke, Andrew Church and Angie Hart
Chapter 4: Community-university partnership research retreats: a productive force for developing communities of research practice, Josh Cameron, Bev Wenger-Trayner, Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Angie Hart, Lisa Buttery, Anne Rathbone, Elias Kourkoutas and Suna Eryigit-Madzawamuse
Part II: Co-creating through and with the arts
Chapter 5: How does arts practice inform a community development approach to the co-production of research? David Bell, Steve Pool, Kim Streets, Natalie Walton with Kate Pahl
Chapter 6: Co-designing for a better future: re-making co-production, Prue Chiles with Louise Ritchie and Kate Pahl
Chapter 7: On not doing co-produced research: the methodological possibilities and limitations of co-producing research with participants in a prison, Elizabeth Hoult
Part III: Co-producing outputs
Chapter 8: Co-production as a new way of seeing: Using photographic exhibitions to challenge dominant stigmatising discourses, Ben Kyneswood
Chapter 9: ‘Who controls the past controls the future’: Black history and community development, Shabina Aslam, Milton Brown, Onyeka Nubia, Natalie Pinnock-Hamilton, Elizabeth Pente, Mandeep Samra and Paul Ward
Conclusion: Imagining different communities and making them happen, Paul Ward, Sarah Banks, Angie Hart, Kate Pahl

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 policymakers 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.

https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/co-producing-research