{"id":781,"date":"2022-02-16T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/publicengagement\/?p=781"},"modified":"2022-03-03T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:05:23","slug":"introducing-participatoryresearchbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/publicengagement\/2022\/02\/16\/introducing-participatoryresearchbath\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing ParticipatoryResearch@Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

With funding from Research England, today we're kicking off ParticipatoryResearch@Bath<\/a>,<\/em> a project that will be investigating the culture of participatory co-produced research at the University of Bath, and we need your help!<\/p>\n

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Working together with people and communities<\/h1>\n

Participatory research is often used as an umbrella term and encompasses a number of different practices. For this project we are keeping our definition broad, for us, it is an approach to research where researchers and people outside academia co-produce research together.<\/p>\n

A participatory research approach is not restricted to any one particular discipline, what it looks like in practice will be different for different disciplines. It could be engineers working with patients to involve them in the research and development of medical devices or it could be young people in the care system working with academics to carry out research of their experiences.<\/p>\n

People are at the core of this approach to research; participatory research involves people who are concerned about or affected by an issue taking a leading role in producing knowledge.<\/p>\n

It is research with\/by\/for people.<\/p>\n

Participatory research is an approach that is distinct from inviting people being <\/span>to be research participants, contributing to research prioritisation exercises, taking part in a dialogue about a research topic, or being<\/span>\u00a0on the receiving end of some <\/span>research <\/span>communication<\/span>.<\/span><\/span> In participatory research academics and people outside academia are co-researchers in a partnership of equals, all with equal power, credibility and authority working together for equal and mutual benefit.<\/p>\n

This approach covers the whole research cycle and involves participatory principles and practices for originating, designing, conducting, analysing, and acting on a piece of research.<\/p>\n

ParticipatoryResearch@Bath<\/h1>\n

A participatory approach to research is common across several departments and research centres at the University of Bath, with some pockets of high-quality good practice. Over the next six months, the ParticipatoryResearch@Bath <\/em><\/a>project will draw on this work and investigate the culture of participatory research across the University.<\/p>\n

Building on the learning from our Community Matters<\/em><\/a> community-based participatory research project and our work to embed and sustain a positive culture of public engagement with research through the Engaged360@Bath<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ChallengeCPD@Bath<\/a> projects, we've developed a programme of undertake work across the following areas:<\/span><\/p>\n