#CoproductionWeek2020 may be over but Coproduction isn’t
About a word
- We created a brief Coproduction Reading List (feel free to suggest additions)
- As well as a list of areas we feel discussions on coproduction need to be had
But writing blogs is never enough. We struggled to get the word of coproduction out to a wider audience, so we decided to record some interviews with those in the know.
When conducting research about disability, people with disability or policies which effect peole or social care, experts by experience are often left out. Our interviews with Tom Shakespeare and Catherine Needham shed some light on how coproduced research can and should be done.
Catherine Needham highlighted to us how coproduction is no easy task. Time and resource can get in the way of meaningful engagement. But pursing this aim is worth the effort and creates some of the most impactful and meaningful research. Catch up on our podcast with Catherine here.
Tom Shakespeare was inspiring not only in his international experience of coproduction, but his knowledge of the Disabled People's Movement and how research should be done. Without making a big deal about it, he told us how his research was coproduced with people with disabilities. For him, it was a no-brainer and a way of life to conduct research coproductively. Catch up on his video interview here.
But #coproductionweek (this year held between 6th - 10th July) is not just about individual perspective but how organisations can bring people together to co-create solutions. Coproduction Week is the brainchild of SCIE (the Social Care Institute for Excellence ) and gives everyone a great excuse to focus on coproduction. Here are some of our favourite shares from their twitter hashtag:
- Age Better Programme in Sheffield
- The Council for Disabled Children’s Participation Fact Sheets
- Heart n Soul Art Project on People’s lived experience
- And of course SCIE’s fantastic set of resources for CoPro Week
- Along with SCIE’s collection of blogs all about #coproduction in 2020
There are many organisations who want to claim their team efforts as coproduction, but it is also important to stay focused on the different elements of coproduction and judge our efforts on where we are on the coproduction ladder. TLAP has made an accessible version here.
A huge thanks to SCIE for making last week full of ideas, successes and discussions on #coproduction. Let’s hope it spurs more and more people on to making coproduction the norm and not the exception in social care.
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