Open Research Conversation: Participants as Co-investigators: Opening up Research with Co-production (12th October 2022)

<p>Recording of an Open Research Conversation session from 12th October 2022. Open Research Conversations are a series of online seminars organised by the University of Sheffield Library, each of which addresses a particular issue in open research. Typically, there are two speakers followed by questions and open discussion.</p> <p>Questions and discussion were not recorded in order to promote open debate.</p> <p>All speakers consented to the publication and sharing of their talk.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Speakers:</p> <p>Vicky Farnsworth, Speakup Self-advocacy Rotherham </p> <p>Professor <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/dan-goodley" target="_blank">Dan Goodley</a> (iHuman and School of Education, University of Sheffield) </p> <p>Professor <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/matthew-flinders" target="_blank">Matt Flinders</a> (Department of Politics, University of Sheffield) </p> <p><br></p> <p>Description and abstracts:</p> <p>Co-produced research opens up the research process to involve research participants themselves in identifying research questions and planning studies. Join <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/dan-goodley" target="_blank">Dan Goodley</a> (iHuman and School of Education), <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/matthew-flinders" target="_blank">Matt Flinders</a> (Department of Politics) and the University of Sheffield Library for a discussion of the challenges, possibilities and power dynamics of co-produced research.</p> <p><strong>Matt Flinders, Department of Politics</strong></p> <p>Co-production and co-design have emerged as central principles within the emergent research funding landscape. While generally welcoming this shift towards working across traditional professional, intellectual and organisational boundaries, Matt Flinders raises a set of concerns regarding deference and decline, co-option and control.  His core argument is that 'unthinking' co-production raises a host of political questions about boundaries, relationships and the contamination of research as scholars, practitioners and publics risk becoming trapped in a Faustian bargain.</p> <p><strong>Dan Goodley, iHuman and School of Education:</strong> Co-production with researchers with learning disabilities </p> <p>In this talk Dan will share some reflections on working with researchers with learning disabilities (including people who also identify as autistic) on a new ESRC funded project entitled Humanising Healthcare. Dan will discuss the challenges and possibilities of co-production including seeking and obtaining funding, responding to reviewers' comments, working with diverse researchers, collaborating across the social sciences and medicine, developing online methods, driving methodological innovation and co-researchers as research managers and theoretical provocateurs. </p> <p><br></p>