What is coproduction?
Co-production is an approach to research, policy and practice in mental health and social care based on the principle that people who use services have valuable knowledge and expertise. Co-production means developing equal and reciprocal relationships between professionals, people using services, and communities to produce knowledge and services that are potentially more effective overall.
The Centre for Co-production encourages interdisciplinary co-productive academic research, teaching, practice and radical mental health scholarship within and outside the Department of Mental Health, Social Work and Integrative Science in the School of Health and Education at Middlesex University.
The Centre consolidates, supports and expands the existing activity and expertise in co-production within the Department. It provides a hub for innovative and radical scholarship that is co-produced between service users, their organisations and communities, carers and staff and the infrastructure for expanding co-production activity in mental health and social care.
Why use Coproduction?
What are our aims?
To value lived experience and to work with individuals and communities in a respectful and effective manner to find solutions to their research, education and practice needs.
To ensure that coproduction is part of research and teaching across the Department’s activities, including enhanced collaboration with the department’s service user networks and organisational partners.
What can the Centre for Coproduction in Health and Social Care do for you?
We can help you to design and evaluate projects and improve the services that impact on you.
We can support you to design and implement research that meets your needs and helps you answer your questions.
We can deliver training and support you to host conferences.
Coproduction can be used in any circumstance where there are people who are impacted by the outcome – if you have any ideas to share or questions please contact us at coproduction@mdx.ac.uk
Please visit our website to see our current projects and find out more about our impact http://centreforcoproduction.com/home/