Co-production and knowledge mobilisation are two of the most current and exciting approaches for doing research and communicating outputs. Both are powerful tools for understanding and facilitating positive change across society. When used together, there is potential to produce robust and important outputs that can influence developments and improvements across policy and practice.
Co-production can be described as a process that involves the production of an output jointly with another or others. Genuine co-production truly understands the users for whom the project is intended to benefit, and this includes, as examples, understanding the environment, policy, barriers, facilitators that need to be taken into consideration. During workshop 1, learners will be guided through the co-production process including considering how to develop a co-production project, how to define the best approach to fit the context, troubleshooting, and developing co-produced outputs. In workshop 2, learners will be introduced to knowledge mobilisation which is a central component on the pathway to impact, and provides an excellent framework for sharing and implementing outputs that have been developed using co-production. Learners will be introduced to what knowledge mobilisation is, key components of successful knowledge mobilisation, and putting the learning into practice by writing a knowledge mobilisation for their own research projects.
Both sessions will be highly interactive, and learners will be encouraged to input throughout, including engaging in collaborative activities.