Power in participatory health research and co-production

A pleasure to present on my work today with Kim Ozano at ?@NCRMUK (National Centre for Research Methods) & ?@livuniengage training on Participatory Action Research #PAR Equitable Partnerships and Engaged Research. I spoke about what #coproduction means to me and talked about my PhD research which explores how people experience power and power-sharing (or lack of) in the co-production of UK health research.

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Beatrice Egid and Kim Ozano shared their paper looking at global perspectives on power in participatory health research ?https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/11/e006978.abstract and about Maria Roura’s work on Social Ecology of Power, raising important points about how power is often overlooked and not addressed in participatory research and co-production.

It was also fascinating to hear from Dr Saadye Ali about how she approached participatory methods and her co-produced research on FGM with young people https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-023-00457-y

I asked the group what they thought affects the balance of power in participatory health research and co-production… you can see their initial responses in the word cloud below. What would you add to that?