Research Co-production Within Humanitarian Health
Reflections on Our Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21206245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Lokot (0000-0002-4406-0166, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, corresponding author), Thurayya Zreik (0000-0001-5243-989X, Independent Consultant, Lebanon) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 467-492 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19408447241241501 |
| PMID | 41907825 |
| OpenAlex | W4395089174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
Research co-production is recognized as important for humanitarian health actors, as part of the growing drive towards localizing and decolonizing aid. Despite recognition that co-production is challenging to implement, reflexive accounts of co-production efforts remain limited. In this paper, we critically examine the role of co-production within a multi-partner research collaboration in Lebanon involving multiple academic, civil society and government-affiliated partners based in the UK and in Lebanon. Through interactive reflection sessions and interviews with research team partners, we document how co-production principles were embedded into our project, explore contextual factors influencing the collaboration, identify successes and challenges to co-production and identify future opportunities for research co-production. We find mixed understandings of co-production between team members and siloed efforts to co-produce within our partnership. We identify key challenges to co-production including contextual factors related to Lebanon and COVID-19, institutional power dynamics, budgets, difficulties in engaging service users and availability of stakeholders to co-produce, while mapping examples of successful co-production in our project. Our study emphasizes the importance of ensuring shared understandings of the scope of co-production at the outset of projects and suggest the collaborative analysis processes provide a key opportunity for researchers to embed co-production principles
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Power, Privilege and Knowledge
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The politics of co-production
Collaborative Coding in Multi-National Teams
Reflections on Researcher Identity and Power
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| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |