This week, the Living Life to the Fullest team is celebrating the fourth annual Co-production Week and Festival, 1–5 July 2019, run by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. The theme for 2019 is ‘Sharing Power’.
In celebration of this special week, which advocates the benefits of co-production and encourages people to share good practice, Living Life to the Fullest’s Lead Co-Researcher Lucy Watts MBE has produced a brilliant podcast about the ways in which we enact co-production in the School of Education and iHuman’s ESRC-funded research project, Living Life to the Fullest.
The project centres the Co-Researcher Collective, a group of disabled young women living with life limiting and life threatening impairments (LL/LTIs), who are co-leading the project with a small team of academics, Kirsty Liddiard, Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole, of the School of Education and iHuman.
Check out Co-Producing Research With Young Disabled People — Episode 2, Lucy’s Light (44.51) here on Audioboom! See its blurb below:
Living Life To The Fullest: A research project looking at the lives, hopes, desires and contributions of disabled children and young people, and their families. This project is co-produced with young disabled women in the form of the “Co-Researcher Collective”, who, unlike many projects, are not just part of the project as subjects or PPI support, these Co-Researchers have been part of every aspect of the project from data collection to data analysis, as well as writing-up our work, and of other interrelated projects of the project, which include a (work in progress) co-production toolkit, an (in progress) book about our work and experiences, our blog, attending conferences, and other side-projects. In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Kirsty Liddiard of the University of Sheffield, the lead researcher, and Sally Whitney, one of our Co-Researcher Collective members, who discuss the Living Life To The Fullest project, our work, how we’ve achieved what we’ve done, and what co-production is, how it has benefitted our project, and how others can learn from what we’ve done (Lucy Watts MBE, 2019).
Feel free to tweet the Living Life to the Fullest project at @FullLivesESRC and tell the team what you think! Don’t forget to use the hashtag #CoProWeek.
