Lost in the shadows
Reflections on the dark side of co-production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23322242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oli Williams (0000-0002-4561-2612, King's College London, corresponding author), Sophie Sarre (0000-0002-7616-6950, King's College London), Constantina Papoulias (0000-0002-7891-0923, King's College London), Stan Constantina Papoulias, Sarah Knowle (0000-0002-0863-5866, University of York), Sarah Knowles, Glenn Robert (0000-0001-8781-6675, King's College London), Peter Beresford (0000-0001-6052-033X, University of Essex), Diana Rose (0000-0002-5707-2633, King's College London), Sarah Carr (0000-0002-5301-9456, University of Birmingham), Meerat Kaur (North West London Pathology), Victoria J Palmer (0000-0002-1060-9990) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-43 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Research Policy and Systems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-4505 • E-ISSN: 1478-4505 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12961-020-00558-0 |
| PMID | 32380998 |
| OpenAlex | W3023127878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 119 |
| References cited | 58 |
This article is a response to Oliver et al.’s Commentary ‘The dark side of coproduction: do the costs outweigh the benefits for health research?’ recently published in Health Research Policy and Systems (2019, 17:33). The original commentary raises some important questions about how and when to co-produce health research, including highlighting various professional costs to those involved. However, we identify four related limitations in their inquiry, as follows: (1) the adoption of a problematically expansive definition of co-production that fails to acknowledge key features that distinguish co-production from broader collaboration; (2) a strong focus on technocratic rationales for co-producing research and a relative neglect of democratic rationales; (3) the transposition of legitimate concerns relating to collaboration between researchers and practitioners onto work with patients, service users and marginalised citizens; and (4) the presentation of bad practice as an inherent flaw, or indeed ‘dark side’, of co-production without attending to the corrupting influence of contextual factors within academic research that facilitate and even promote such malpractice. The Commentary’s limitations can be seen to reflect the contemporary use of the term ‘co-production’ more broadly. We describe this phenomenon as ‘cobiquity’ – an apparent appetite for participatory research practice and increased emphasis on partnership working, in combination with the related emergence of a plethora of ‘co’ words, promoting a conflation of meanings and practices from different collaborative traditions. This phenomenon commonly leads to a misappropriation of the term ‘co-production’. Our main motivation is to address this imprecision and the detrimental impact it has on efforts to enable co-production with marginalised and disadvantaged groups. We conclude that Oliver et al. stray too close to ‘the problem’ of ‘co-production’ seeing only the dark side rather than what is casting the shadows. We warn against such a restricted view and argue for greater scrutiny of the structural factors that largely explain academia’s failure to accommodate and promote the egalitarian and utilitarian potential of co-produced research.
Coproduction · Great Rift · Health services research · Misappropriation · Nursing research · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Technocracy · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Nursing
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| Unique citing works | 119 |
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| Citations per year | 19,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |