A Co-production Values and Principles Compass to Guide Along the Underused Pathway; Comment on “Research Coproduction: An Underused Pathway to Impact”

Masterson, Daniel; Laidlaw, Lynn

doi:10.34172/ijhpm.8835

A Co-production Values and Principles Compass to Guide Along the Underused Pathway; Comment on “Research Coproduction: An Underused Pathway to Impact”

Document Type : Commentary

Authors

Daniel Masterson ¹^{, 2}^{, 3} ^¶

Lynn Laidlaw ⁴ ^¶

¹ The School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

² Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden

³ Centre for Health and Development, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

⁴ Patient and Public Partner, Whitley Bay, UK

10.34172/ijhpm.8835

Abstract

Co-production in research is not only encouraged but rapidly becoming a required consideration in health research funding. The challenge in defining co-production continues and the misapplication of co-production has led to growing calls for an emphasis on operationalising the values and principles of co-production in research. This commentary considers Rycroft-Malone and colleagues’ key messages about co-production being more than a set of activities, and reflects on the challenges within the academic sector when applying co-production. The Coproducing Meaningful Principles and Sharing Standards (Co-MPASS) tool offers a way to consider co-production values in the early stages of collaboration. Rather than a stand-alone tool for co-production, it is intended to be used with established methods and published toolboxes to emphasise co-production principles through reflection, conversation, documentation, and learning.

Keywords

Co-production

Values

Knowledge Co-production

Research Co-production

Integrated Knowledge Translation

Implementation

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