Outputs
What is the Co-Production Futures Inquiry?
Our short film provides an overview of the Inquiry and the people and motivations behind it.
Meeting People Where They Are: Co-producing Research with Communities
Workshop findings and webinar, April 2026 In this online Webinar, Dr Bryony Vince-Myers and Dr Al Mathers share learnings from a workshop conducted for the Co-Production Futures Inquiry on what a good experience of working with the university as a community researcher would look and feel like. They reflect on what works well, what needs to change, and emerging initiatives already working to support equitable and inclusive partnerships.
Photo Gallery
Response to the Call for Evidence and Ideas
In our second report, we synthesised the evidence gathered through the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry’s national Call for Evidence and Ideas, conducted between 5 December 2024 and 28 February 2025. The report outlines the size and scale of the problem, as well as solutions currently being tried and tested around four main themes: Fair Funding, Negotiated Ethics, Equitable Partnerships, and Responsible Metrics.
Building on the Call for Evidence and Ideas
The film summarises reflections from our Inquiry Panel Orientation event in Liverpool in June 2025, where we presented findings from our Call for Evidence and Ideas. The film shares reflections from our co-leads, panel members and colleagues from across the UK higher education sector on the challenges faced in undertaking participatory research, and how we can move from insight to action in a crowded and sometimes contradictory landscape.
Can we build institutional support for co-produced research?
Co-production is invoked as a means of creating research impact, but it is poorly supported by research institutions. Here, Beth Perry, Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson present the Co-Pro Futures inquiry, which aims to put co-production on a firmer footing in UK higher education. Read the blog article: Can we build institutional support for co-produced research?
Co-Pro Futures Inquiry - Call for Evidence and Ideas Launch
Beth Perry explains why the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry is essential and how to contribute evidence and ideas.
Getting Our House in Order
In our introductory report, we introduced the Inquiry, including why and how we are doing it, and what the Call for Evidence and Ideas aims to achieve.
University of Sheffield Launch Workshop
In June 2024, we held a workshop in Sheffield to introduce the Inquiry to researchers drawn primarily from the Universities of Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester. We invited the 60+ participants to 'air their dirty laundry in public', identifying challenges they had experienced in the field, which related to specific processes or structures within their own universities. They then wrote postcards to the person or team that might be able to address the problem.
