...Jonathan Glazzard; Scott Thomas Purpose This paper explores the methodological dimensions of a prisoner–university academic co-author partnership, advancing co-production as a critical mode of knowledge generation within, against and beyond the carceral environment. Situating the collaboration...

...Bruno De Oliveira Purpose This article aims to clarify the conceptual distinctions between co-production/co-design and participatory action research (PAR). It develops a practical framework to help researchers, reviewers and community partners decide which approach is most appropriate for a given...

...Kate Marston Purpose This paper critically examines the development and direction of the Fabricating Future Bodies (FFB) Workshop. Troubling notions of co-production as enacting equality or empowering participants, it draws on feminist posthuman and new materialist concepts to understand...

...Temidayo Eseonu; James Duggan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of claims of cultural appropriation in negotiating who has the right to utilise specific racial, cultural or communities' ways of knowing in research co-production. Cultural appropriation is a claim made against...

...Fred Cooper; Charlotte Jones Purpose This paper explores the dissonance between co-production and expectations of impact in a research project on student loneliness over the 2019/2020 academic year. Specific characteristics of the project – the subject matter, interpolation of a global respiratory...

...Cassie Kill Purpose In this paper, the author reflects on her researcher experiences of attempting to construct co-productive epistemic relations in her ethnographic doctoral research about a gallery youth collective. The paper engages with debates about the nature of co-productive relations...

...Robert E. Rinehart and Kerry Earl; Jacquie Kidd; Gareth Edwards Purpose – Co-production in the context of mental health research has become something of a buzzword to indicate a project where mental health service users and academics are in a research partnership. The notion of partnership where...