Welcome to the Co-production Knowledge Base! Here we have gathered a wealth of useful resources about all aspects of co-production in one place. Use the categories list to browse through resources or the search bar to look for something specific. Please let us know of any additional resources to include!
Understanding the basics of co-production and its application
- What is the value of co-production?
- [Audio] A podcast series of exploration about co-production in public services
- [Audio] A brief history of co-production
- [Audio] Simple, complicated and complex
- [Audio] The Ladder of Participation
- [Audio] What is co-production? Part 2
- [Audio] What is co-production? Part 1
- [Audio] Components of co-production
- Glossary of engagement terminology
- A brief history of co-production (video)
- Guest appearance on the Community Catalysts podcast [audio]
- Co-production, involvement & people-centred practice
- What is co-design and co-production (by Kelly Ann McKercher)
- Co-Production Guide for Northern Ireland – Connecting and Realising Value Through People
- NLCF report: A Meeting of Minds: how co-production benefits people, professionals and organisations
- Co-production: an audio introduction
- The meaning of co-production for health care users and user organizations
- Co production: A manifesto for growing the core economy.
- Right here, right now. Taking co-production into the mainstream.
- Think differently, think flexibly: think co-production!
- What is co-production, why would we do it and how can we implement it?
- The 5 principles of co-production illustrated
- A bunch of diagrams about co-production
- The what, why and who of co-pro (poster, Dineen R., 2012)
- Co-production: right here, right now (Boyle D., 2010)
- Public Service Reform (general)
- The Challenge of Co-Production (Boyle, D., 2009)
- TLAP’s Top Ten Tips for Co-production (Easy Read)
- Co-production in easy read (from SCIE)
- Videos about co-production
- What real co-production is not (A4, 2 pager)
- Co-production definition and principles (with posters)
Documented case studies from Wales and the UK
- Co-Production Guide for Northern Ireland – Connecting and Realising Value Through People
- NLCF report: A Meeting of Minds: how co-production benefits people, professionals and organisations
- Recreation and community projects
- CitizenPoweredCities: co-producing better public services with citizens (2016)
- Case study: Lambeth Living Well Network
- Case studies from Vanguard
- How we make a difference together
- Me, Myself and I Club (Briton Ferry)
- Case studies on the WCVA website
- Governance International case studies
- Connected Communities Innovation Fund grantees
- Good Help Award finalists
- Co-production Catalogue from Wales (Seeing is Believing)
Stories of good things happening and inspirational items
- [Audio] Taking your first steps into co-production
- [Audio] Co-production: Frequently Asked Questions
- [Audio] Doing co-production online
- [Audio] Building a co-production team
- [Audio] In conversation with Mencap Cymru
- [Audio] In conversation with Rachel Thompson
- Considering power relationships in co-design
- Co-producing the future: in our own words
- Mayday Trust and homelessness: we’re working to fix a broken system
- Good things happening: a collection of articles
- Buurtzorg: revolutionising home care in the Netherlands
- Co-production – Sharing Our Experiences, Reflecting on Our Learning
- Public service: state of transformation
- Wellbeing4U: United Welsh
- Organisational innovation and integrated care: Lessons from Buurtzorg.
- New approaches to health (Well Doncaster)
- Co-production work and information from NDTi
- A strength-based and needs-led approach to support domestic abuse victims
- Public services inside out: Putting co-production into practice.
- Designing good mental health into the way we bank (Monzo)
- Track the Act (survey for carers)
- Compassionate values (Common Cause)
- Action Learning for evidence-informed practice
- Improving citizens’ relationships with government – the power of prepositions
- Co-producing public services – how to actually make it happen
- Radical Help by Hilary Cottam
- Evolution of trust
- Using user panels
- Our Future Foyle
- Wales’ new ethics first school curriculum
- The ‘What matters to me’ app
- Transforming public services
- Co-designed transportation solutions
- Eradicating homelessness in Finland
- Learning about what matters most
- Research in practice film: Co-production in practice
- The Buurtzorg Model
- Daring to be different: primary care in Wrexham
- Co-production at the Booth Centre
- Doing things differently can yield unexpected results
- Being present makes a contribution
- Meet people where they are
- Locals get together to buy pub
- Sisters, Act! Tai Pawb tenant involvement research
- Our Voices Heard – and acted upon
- Are we smiling?
- Innovation for Active Communities
- Rise of the enablement mindset
- People learning to trust you, will test you first
- Arts on prescription
- Making the choice: early insights from up2us
- The Four Mile Rule
- Outputs and outcomes
- Teacher shadows students for a day
- 101 tactics for revolutionaries
- Experiments with co-housing
- Children leading the way
- Designed by patients
- Communities Together Project
- Co-production pilot (Toomebridge)
- Reducing alcohol harm
- Co-production in Torfaen
- The Spice of Life
- Health inequality challenge
- Restorative approach in schools
- A view from Due North
- The Good Life Group
- Gill Phillips of ‘Whose Shoes?’
- NHS Direct co-produced service
- Integrated Service for Older People
- Wellbeing Our Way
- Spice evaluation of time credits impact (2014)
- Knowing me, knowing you
- Eight priorities for involvement
- Quote: person-centred care
- The quiet revolution
- Strategic architecture: a new approach to revitalizing cities gains steam
- Incredible Edible
- Chickens help tackle loneliness
- A playable parable on society
- Atul Gawande’s Reith Lectures
- Simple but not simplistic
- Link between design and care
- Loneliness Resource Pack
- Recovery Cymru
- Designing communities
- Co-production research
- Academics should consult people
- Dutch approach to urbanism
- Improving housing to help health
- Consultation failed, co-design succeeds
- We’re finally doing aid right
- Men’s Sheds
- Walk links people & nature
- Remaking a Museum
- Dutch Library Attendance Record
- Vale People First
- Generous public spaces
- Play streets (Hackney)
- Many solutions
- The perfect playground
- Keyring Living Support Networks
- The Secret Kitchen Cafe
- A better A&E design project
- Voice for Indi
- Made By Brad
- Co-production Cardiff style
- Ely Caerau Community Mothers
- Caerdroia Theatre
- Andrew Jenks, Room 335
- Kids Solve Problems
- Peer Mentoring Art Groups
- Students design their own school
Research on co-production and co-produced research
- [Audio] Co-production and research
- Research – co-creation and co-design in science
- Research – cities and urban design and planning
- Research – older people
- Research – poverty
- Research – wellbeing and physical activity
- Research – employment and workforce
- Research – art and creative practice
- Research – children and young people
- Research – co-production practice
- Research – co-producing research
- Research – communities
- Research – health (continued)
- Research: the language of “public engagement”
- Research – heritage and culture
- Co-production & organ donation research
- Patient and public involvement in research
- Research: behaviour change & health promotion
- Research – environment and sustainability
- Research – evaluation of co-production
- Research – mental health
- Research – co-creation in science
- Research – housing
- Research – planning
- Research – health and wellbeing
- Research – design and innovation
- Research – health
- The SUCCESS model
- Citizens as active participants in integrated care: challenging the field’s dominant paradigms
- Do the costs outweigh the benefits for health research?
- Health: patient participation
- Centre for Co-production in Health Research
- Coutts, P. & Brotchie, J., 2017. The Scottish approach to evidence.
- Using research evidence: a practice guide
- Research: Co-production Practice
- Co-production, interdependence and publicness: Extending public service-dominant logic.
- Collective action and the sustainability of co-production.
- InterAction: How can academics and the third sector work together to influence policy and practice
- Co-production of research
- Effective Practitioner–Scholar Relationships: Lessons from a Coproduction Partnership (paper)
- Why people co-produce: Analysing citizens’ perceptions on co-planning engagement in health care services.
- Co-Creation and Co-Production in the United Kingdom – A Rapid Evidence Assessment (paper)
- Health and care research
- Co-production for feasibility and pilot RCT’s: learning outcomes for community partners, service users and the research team.
- Correlates of co-production: evidence from a five nation survey of citizens.
- What counts as good evidence?
- Getting things changed: disabled people’s organisations and co-production
- Participatory research
- Joint decision-making, co-production and meaningful community participation: what works?
- Co-designing with people with different learning styles and abilities
- Considering the realities and constraints in co-producing research
- Guidance on co-producing a research project
- Books on co-production
- Academic research papers
- Action research
- Holi: Co-production Inquiry Wales
- Measuring person-centred care
Applying co-production to commissioning and procurement
- Community-led Action Research
- The future of commissioning (and more) from Collaborate
- The Preston model
- Report: Funding and Commissioning in Complexity
- Guide to co-production with older people
- Impact Evaluation: A Guide for Commissioners & Managers (Stern E., 2015)
- Transforming Youth Services: Unlocking Value Through Co-Production
- The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement
- 2015 report on commissoning for the Health Minister
- Commissioning Home Care for Older people – guide
- Commissioning relationship-centred care in Essex: an evaluation
- Unlocking the Imagination – a creative path for commissioners
- People Powered Commissioning
Co-producing in practice at service design and delivery stages
- Co-Production Guide for Northern Ireland – Connecting and Realising Value Through People
- NLCF report: A Meeting of Minds: how co-production benefits people, professionals and organisations
- Can we make policymaking more… fun?
- Guide to service user involvement
- New conversations 2: LGA Guide to Engagement
- OGP’s Participation and Co-creation Toolkit: from usual suspects to business as usual
- Co-creation: ‘What works here doesn’t work there’ (Wildman, J.M. et al., 2019)
- Co-production Project Planner
- CitizenPoweredCities: co-producing better public services with citizens (2016)
- Co-production guide for Northern Ireland: connecting and realising value through people (2018)
- Co-production – Sharing our experiences, reflecting on our learning.
- Getting things changed: disabled people’s organisations and co-production
- Person centered planning
- What is co-production, why would we do it and how can we implement it?
- How we make a difference together
- Co-designing with people with different learning styles and abilities
- Meet people where they are
- Sisters, Act! Tai Pawb tenant involvement research
- Building Care and Support Together
- People learning to trust you, will test you first
- Guide to co-production with older people
- Patterns of Co-Production in Public Services
- In This Together – Building Knowledge About Co-Production
- Designing Public Participation Services
- Beyond engagement and participation: user and community co-production of public services
- The Journey to the Interface
- Co-design and co-delivery
Evaluating co-production and measuring impact
- [Audio] Focusing on what matters
- [Audio] Co-production and evaluation
- Measuring person-centred care: a simple co-produced tool
- Measurement for Learning: A Different Approach to Improvement
- Co-production & involvement audit for organisations (online)
- Impact and outcomes reporting
- Evaluation support Scotland
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: “no result”
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code CHJ
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code EGI
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code EFJ
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code EFI
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code DGJ
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code DGI
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code DFI
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code CGI
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code BGJ
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code BGI
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code BFI
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code AGJ
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code AFJ
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code AFI
- Maximise Your Impact: A Guide
- A guide to evaluation (Big Lottery Fund / National Lottery Community Fund)
- Stories and numbers: Collecting the right impact data
- Logic models and theory of change
- Measuring What Matters (a thinking tool)
- Tents around a campfire: evidencing transformation
- Data Cymru’s Guide to Evaluation
- Participatory research
- How to evaluate asset-based approaches in an asset-based way
- Involving young people in evaluation
- Evaluating co-production
- Impact Evaluation: A Guide for Commissioners & Managers (Stern E., 2015)
- Why Bother Involving People In Evaluation?
- Evaluation: How to Understand & Measure Impact
- Guide to evaluating community capacity initatives (TLAP)
- Co-production self-evaluation audit tool
- No small change: evaluate the success of your project
- How to measure preventative spending
- Impact measurement (quote)
Databank of evidence of the effectiveness of co-production
- Evidence is power
- Co-production and public service reform
- Research – The role of co-production in quality improvement: a scoping review
- The many shades of co-produced evidence, Pippa Coutts (Carnegie UK)
- Guide: Evidence for Success
- Evidencing Genuine Co-Production in the Third Sector (Lozano-Casal P., 2017)
- Evaluating co-production
- Spice evaluation of time credits impact (2014)
- Building Community Capacity: Evidence, efficiency and cost-effectiveness (quote)
- Commissioning relationship-centred care in Essex: an evaluation
Collated resources for specific sectors or areas of practice
- [Audio] Co-production and housing
- [Audio] Co-production and the arts
- [Audio] Co-production and education
- [Audio] Co-production and community building
- Community Development
- Behaviour change in the Welsh NHS: insights from three programmes
- Health: patient participation
- Housing
- Learning disability
- Health (General)
- Health and wellbeing
- Getting things changed: disabled people’s organisations and co-production
- Prison and Probation Services
- Children and young people
- Health: primary care
- Mental health
Tools and methods to help you “do” co-production
- Transforming in public sector practice for a culture of co-production
- Your Guide: Meaningful Conversations with Young People
- Six essential mindsets (by Kelly Ann McKercher)
- Facilitating online in virtual spaces
- Top 10 resources on the use of evidence.
- The SUCCESS model
- Psychologically Informed Environments – PIE
- Tools for evaluation
- Tools for communities.
- Reflection questions (by the Satori Lab)
- Revaluation: A participative approach to measuring and making change.
- Community Circles
- The Place Standard: how good is our place?
- Civic tech: digital tools for citizen involvement
- Citizens assemblies
- Community visioning
- Community of Enquiry
- Academi Wales tools and resources
- Tools for community engagement
- Participatory appraisal
- World cafe
- Asset mapping
- Digital engagement tools
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Open Space Technology
- Innovation toolkits
- 101 tactics for revolutionaries
- Facilitation toolkits
- Action Learning
- Positive risk taking
- Personal transformation
- Planning tool for building community connections
- Outcomes frameworks
- Storytelling and narratives
Co-production shares a values-base with these
- Human. Learning. Systems.
- Open Government
- Trust and therapeutic relationships
- Community transport
- Shared decision making (health)
- Community asset transfer (CAT)
- Involving the public in robust and trustworthy data sharing
- Public involvement in health outcomes research (Grundy, A. et al., 2019)
- Foundational economy
- Service design, design thinking and more
- Local area co-ordination
- Leadership
- Human centered design
- Open data
- Place based working and/or localism
- Arts and creativity
- Creating empowered and resilient communities
- Complexity theory
- Community organising
- Asset model approach
- Restorative approaches
- Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)
- Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (Oxfam SLA)
- Theory U
- Action research
- Timebanking
- Place making
- Systems thinking
- Participatory budgeting
- Design thinking
- Approaches to public services
- Change and innovation
- Organisational culture change
The legislation that sets the co-production tone in Wales
- Manifesto – elections 2021
- Nov20: The context for Welsh public services (focus on PSBs)
- Quotes from policy and legislation: 2011 to 2019
- What Welsh legislation says: a summary
- The SSWB Act and the WBFG Act
- Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
- Welsh Government Programme for government (2018) including Prosperity for All: the national strategy
How the Co-production Network for Wales came to be
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