UKRIO webinar Co-production: participant and stakeholder involvement in research

Webinar organised by UKORI

Co-production: participant and stakeholder involvement in research






Two case studies were presented on: Co-creation of research resulting in book(s) about children in schools - from different perspectives & one about co-creation of research/engineering outcomes between disabled dancers and engineers resulting in changed or changes to prosthesis based on the shared experiences.

1st: Kate Pahl Manchester Metropolitan University


K. Pahl, S. Pool (2021). Doing Research‐Creation in School: Keeping an Eye on the Ball. International Journal of Art & Design Education. 40(3), pp.655-667.

M. Brown, K. Pahl, Z. Rasool, P. Ward (2020). Co-producing research with communities: emotions in community research. Global Discourse. 10(1), pp.93-114. 

H. Escott, K. Pahl (2019). Learning from Ninjas: young people’s films as a lens for an expanded view of literacy and language. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 40(6), pp.803-815. 

KH. Pahl (2019). Recognizing Young People’s Civic Engagement Practices: Rethinking Literacy Ontologies through Co-Production. Studies in Social Justice. 13(1), pp.20-39. 

K. Pahl, P. Evans (2018). Virtual centrality: Young people making meaning from research in a widening participation context. Research for All. 2(2), pp.393-410. 

KH. Pahl, S. Pool (2018). Re-Imagining Artistic Subjectivities within Community Projects. Open Library of Humanities. 4(2), pp.1-22.


2nd: Sarah Whatley, Coventry University


Whatley, S., Marsh, K., Benford, S., Zhou, F., Tennant, P., Ascroft, I., O'Brien, W. & Erhart, T. (2023) Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics CHI'23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Schmidt, A., Väänänen, K., Goyal, T., Kristensson, P. O., Peters, A., Mueller, S., Williamson, J. R. & Wilson, M. L. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 128. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).


Whatley, S., Benford, S., Marsh, K., Zhou, F., Ashcroft, I., Tennant, P., O'Brien, W. & Erhart, T., (2023)Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. (In-Press), p. (In-Press) 16 p.


Link to the UKRIO YouTube channel where the video is/will be available

Link to an AI based summary of the webinar 


Links shared (by participants & organisers) in the chat during the talk: 

Further reading added at a later stage:

All about ethics (of PPIE) Paraphrased from the intro: Helen Craig shares her team’s explorations into how research ethics works in relation to co-production, public involvement and engagement, based on 50 interviews.