Using the coproduction principle: No more throwaway kids

Cahn, Edgar S.; Gray, Christine Allison

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“…Chief among these was an enduring orientation toward an ethos of co-production, as this was expressed in a set of principles developed by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), a London based foundation which favors participatory approaches to public sector innovation. These principles, themselves an adaptation of the values laid out in Edgar Cahn's democratizing model of co-production, include a recognition of people's different assets; the development of reciprocal relationships between professional and lay members of a team; an emphasis on establishing networks; the development of activities to fit people's skills; an orientation toward personal development (Cahn, 2000 ; NESTA, 2012 ). The team recognized that adopting this model in its entirety might be beyond their capacity at present and settled instead on one of the principles: the development of reciprocal relationships in collaborative spaces.…”

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Toward Co-productive Learning? The Exchange Network as Experimental Space

Matthews

Papoulias

2019

Front. Sociol.

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Policy around patient and public involvement (PPI) in the production, design and delivery of health services, and research remains difficult to implement. Consequently, in the UK and elsewhere, recent years have seen a proliferation of toolkits, training, and guidelines for supporting good practice in PPI. However, such instruments rarely engage with the power asymmetries shaping the terrain of collaboration in research and healthcare provision. Toolkits and standards may tell us little about how different actors can be enabled to reflect on and negotiate such asymmetries, nor on how they may effectively challenge what count as legitimate forms of knowledge and expertise. To understand this, we need to turn our attention to the relational dynamic of collaboration itself. In this paper we present the development of the Exchange Network, an experimental learning space deliberately designed to foreground, and work on this relational dynamic in healthcare research and quality improvement. The Network brings together diverse actors (researchers, clinicians, patients, carers, and managers) for structured "events" which are not internal to particular research or improvement projects but subsist at a distance from these. Such events thus temporarily suspend the role allocation, structure, targets, and other pragmatic constraints of such projects. We discuss how Exchange Network participants make use of action learning techniques to reflect critically on such constraints; how they generate a "knowledge space" in which they can rehearse and test a capacity for dialogue: an encounter between potentially conflictual forms of knowledge. We suggest that Exchange Network events, by explicitly attending to the dynamics and tensions of collaboration, may enable participants to collectively challenge organizational norms and expectations and to seed capacities for learning, as well as generate new forms of mutuality and care.

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Section: Rationale and Phased Emergencementioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Co-productive Learning? The Exchange Network as Experimental Space

Matthews

Papoulias

2019

Front. Sociol.

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“…'s () research into co‐production outside paid employment and that in community timebanks (Seyfang , Boyle & Bird ) and youth work (Marks ). For citizens, co‐production has been associated with self‐reported increases in self‐esteem, self‐efficacy, self‐determination, self‐control and gaining practical life and employment skills (Cahn & Gray , Boyle et al . , Marks , Slay & Stephens , Boyle & Bird ).…”

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“…Case study evidence supports this in Slay and Stephens' (2013) overview of co-production in mental health, Boyle et al's (2006) research into co-production outside paid employment and that in community timebanks (Seyfang 2003, Boyle & Bird 2014 and youth work (Marks 2008). For citizens, co-production has been associated with self-reported increases in self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-determination, self-control and gaining practical life and employment skills (Cahn & Gray 2005, Boyle et al 2006, Marks 2008, Slay & Stephens 2013, Boyle & Bird 2014. However, none of these studies are explicitly psychological or phenomenological in approach.…”

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‘…it shows that there's no limits’: the psychological impact of co-production for experts by experience working in youth mental health

Mayer

McKenzie

2017

Health Soc Care Community

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Co-production is commonly conceptualised as a more equal sharing of power and decision-making between a dichotomy of service user and service provider, each bringing valuable and different assets to the process. Experts by experience lie in the overlap between this conceptually created duality, providing the services they now do by virtue of having once used services themselves. Previous related studies suggest that their involvement in co-production could impact positively on their social capital, self-esteem, self-efficacy and life skills. However, no studies have been explicitly psychological or phenomenological in nature, and the theoretical basis for such outcomes remains under-developed. This phenomenological study explored the psychological impact of co-production for young people who were paid experts by experience for a young person's mental health charity in a large and diverse urban area in the UK, looking at the what of psychological impact, as well as the theoretical why and how. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of five males, with a mean age of 25 years. Interpretative phenomenological analysis yielded three master themes: the co-production approach, I'm a professional and identities in transition. Participants valued a collegiate organisational approach that prioritised empowerment, agency and equality between experts by experience and 'experts by qualification', leading to a positive impact on their self-efficacy and self-esteem. Co-production impacted fundamentally on their identity structure, enabling them to explore a new identity as a 'professional'. The results are framed within identity process theory and point to the potential benefits of this model to co-production.

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“…This gives scope for both horizontal service exchange, where members exchange services in the current period intra-generationally, and vertical or inter-generational service exchanges that involve the ‘banking’ of earned hours for redemption later. These aspects have led to claims that time banking could help strengthen bonds within communities and build community resilience (Cahn, 2004 ; Shih et al, 2015 ), could be deployed to support social and economic inclusion for individuals otherwise marginalized or excluded (see Drakeford and Gregory, 2010 ; Marks, 2012 ; Weaver et al, 2015 ; Skropke, 2016 ) and could be useful in building missing support systems for social welfare and health care systems.…”

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Making a Case for Creating Living Labs for Aging-in-Place: Enabling Socially Innovative Models for Experimentation and Complementary Economies

Spinelli

Weaver²,

Marks³

et al. 2019

Front. Sociol.

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Aging is continuously depicted as a force majeure event despite clear and robust premonitions of its coming. However, such depiction serves to justify the unpreparedness and inadequacy of policies manifesting in loneliness and isolation, unsatisfied demands in health and social care, lack of suitably inclusive residential and social facilities, and inequitable access to support and services. Recent years have seen an increase in social innovation that involves alternative transaction models, such as time-banks and circular economies. These initiatives represent collective responses to changes and challenges such as aging by identifying and innovatively capturing and exchanging locally- and freely- available assets with the intent to fulfill economic needs (more affordable goods and services), social ambitions (skills development and exchange, repurposing space, social inclusion, and cohesion) environmental aspirations (up-cycle) and psychological needs (sense of purpose, identity, belonging, recognition). Whilst it is often assumed that ad hoc measures are appropriate to resolve the challenges posed by an aging demographic, the learnt assumption that underpins this work is that aging is a systemic issue and ought to be understood, and resolved, in its context, not by producing niche- relevant policy and interventions, but considering the impacts it has on the whole society. Henceforth it is proposed that truly transformative social innovation for the aging population must consider and resolve the challenges of communities as these are where older adults can stay relevant socially and, in the presented approach, also economically. Through the review of four international case studies, a framework with four cornerstones has emerged. This includes the changing role of local and central governments, the models of value creation, co-creation mechanisms, and finally, technology, especially digital social currency. The concurrent presence of the four factors in the framework is not always a requirement for social innovation to emerge and flourish. However, the presented analysis suggests that all four themes have an impact even when not being direct agents of social innovation. The authors conclude by making a case for developing Living Labs for Aging-in-Place, to experiment and study proposed solutions for systemic challenges facing the aging population, grounded in community-led schemes.

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Using the coproduction principle: No more throwaway kids

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Toward Co-productive Learning? The Exchange Network as Experimental Space

Toward Co-productive Learning? The Exchange Network as Experimental Space

‘…it shows that there's no limits’: the psychological impact of co-production for experts by experience working in youth mental health

Making a Case for Creating Living Labs for Aging-in-Place: Enabling Socially Innovative Models for Experimentation and Complementary Economies

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