Co-production Resource Hub

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.

The 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.

Thom 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.

Yesmin 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.

Michelle 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.

In 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.

In this blog, SCN’s Sheena Fletcher explores the challenges of identifying co-production and how we can capture examples that show it in action.

In 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.

In 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.

Developed 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.

This lovely short film is a great way to explain why co-production matters, in a friendly and accessible way.

Are 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!

Health 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.

This 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.

Voices 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.

Blog 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.

This web resource describes some useful case studies of co-production undertaken by Mind and provides helpful links to further resources and discussion.

Commissioned 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.

This 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.

A practical example of how payment policies can work in the tricky navigational waters of paying people involved in co-pro.

The usefully illustrative ladder of co-production was developed by Think Local Act Personal and is used to describe co-production at strategic commissioning level, but it can be adapted to any of the other levels as well.

‘Include For Good’ is the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities’ (SCLD) programme for change.  

Useful guidance document produced by See Me Scotland which practitioners can use to review their own practice in relation to key components of coproduction.

The article is titled: Framework, principles and recommendations for utilising participatory methodologies in the co-creation and evaluation of public health interventions and published in Research Involvement and Engagement.

In this blog series by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, we hear different voices involved in the co-production of a peer advocacy training project in Glasgow and a peer-led evaluation of that training.

The ‘Our Rights, Our Communities’ project was run in partnership with Unity Sisters, Milk Café and Govanhill Baths Community Trust: Community in Action. It aimed to build a unique model of community-based advocacy replicable with Scottish refugee communities.

We spoke to Yesmin Begum, who shared her innovative and fun way of talking about co-production… using potatoes!