People with lived experience can bring unique knowledge, novel ideas and challenging questions to discussions around the issues they’re experts in – but how, and how much, we really value lived experience can raise significant questions. This Scottish Government guidance explores these issues, and sets out the key principles and practical implications.
Read MoreThe article is titled: Adopting, implementing and assimilating coproduced health and social care innovations involving structurally vulnerable populations: findings from a longitudinal, multiple case study design in Canada, Scotland and Sweden.
Read MoreThom Stewart from An Áit Eile Cooperative shares a number of principles that are helpful in understanding co-production as an ethical approach to working with other people.
Read MoreYesmin Begum shares her insights into the Health Literacy Project that she is involved in as a member of the Katie’s Team, a women’s health advocacy group in London.
Read MoreMichelle McBride, Volunteer Engagement Officer at VOX Scotland reflects on making co-production work and embedding these principles in their work. Voices of Experience (VOX) is Scotland’s mental health collective advocacy charity run by and for its members.
Read MoreIn this blog, Niamh Smith from Health CASCADE reflects on her experiences at our August Ideas Clinic and on some of the challenges involved in creating an evidence-based training package which can truly help people to plan, govern, and conduct co-creation projects.
Read MoreIn this blog, SCN’s Sheena Fletcher explores the challenges of identifying co-production and how we can capture examples that show it in action.
Read MoreIn this blog, Zsara McEwan from Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) reflects on the creation of a co-design remuneration and rewards policy which was co-designed as part of a wider project which aimed to change the way family support services are procured and designed.
Read MoreIn this blog, Paul Stevenson from Bethany Christian Trust, reflects on his experiences presenting and sharing ideas at the co-pro ideas clinic in April this year.
Read MoreDeveloped with the With Us, For Us Lived Experience Project Group (LPEG), this comprehensive set of resources from the Scottish Recovery Network provided an opportunity for people living with trauma and/or who have been given a diagnosis of personality disorder to share their experiences of services and their ideas for change in a suite of co-produced resources.
Read MoreThis lovely short film is a great way to explain why co-production matters, in a friendly and accessible way.
Read MoreAre you interested in learning more about co-creation and how you can apply it in your practice or research? This online course might be for you!
Read MoreHealth CASCADE is a Europe-wide research project that focuses on co-creation and is tasked with developing a set of guidelines and tools, grounded in evidence, to help researchers work with individuals and communities to improve health and wellbeing.
Read MoreThis catalogue of co-production has been created as part of Nesta’s People Powered Health programme which ran from 2011-13. People Powered Health was a practical innovation programme, to explore how co-production can support people living with long term conditions.
Read MoreVoices of Experience (Vox) Scotland launched a co-production resource during Co-production Week Scotland in 2022 which supports mental health professionals and service providers to implement co-productive practice.
Read MoreBlog from the Co-Production Collective about a research programme looking at co-producing research into care planning. The blog was co-written by all members of the research programme steering group, including people with living, and learnt experience of dementia.
Read MoreThis web resource describes some useful case studies of co-production undertaken by Mind and provides helpful links to further resources and discussion.
Read MoreCommissioned by the Scottish Human Rights Commission, this research explores different approaches to paying people with lived experience of human rights issues for their time and expertise.
Read MoreThis guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Research discusses a lot of the issues we deal with in co-production in terms of paying people for their involvement and while it is not specifically co-pro focussed, it is a very helpful guide to policies of this type.
Read MoreA practical example of how payment policies can work in the tricky navigational waters of paying people involved in co-pro.
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