Co-production of a regional approach to community engagement in health and care research in the North East and North Cumbria

Bidmead, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0166-4506 , Shenton, Felicity, Brunskill, Greta, Whitmarsh, Kate, Barnes, Sharon and Capewell, Steph (2025) Co-production of a regional approach to community engagement in health and care research in the North East and North Cumbria. In: McGovern, William, Alderson, Hayley, Bareham, Bethany Kate and Lhussier, Monique, (eds.) Public involvement and community engagement in applied health and social care research: critical perspectives and innovative practice. Emerald Publishing, Leeds, UK, pp. 17-29.

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Abstract

This chapter focusses on developments in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) that strove to create more opportunities for seldom heard groups and communities to be active partners in health and care research. We focus specifically on co-production with the voluntary and community sectors, summarising the context that influenced a collective drive to do things differently. Two local voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations share their insights and experiences. We outline a series of regional developments that aimed to address key issues associated with involving communities and VCSE organisations in research and focus on improving relationships and growing more meaningful opportunities that benefit people, communities and the VCSE sector, as well as improving the quality of research. Finally, we share some of our key learning and messages for others looking to support and develop new ways of working with communities and VCSE organisations to develop meaningful, reciprocal, and sustainable partnerships in research.

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing
ISBN:	9781836086789
Departments:	Institute of Health > Social Work, Children and Families
Additional Information:	Chapter two within book. Dr Elaine Bidmead, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health and University of Cumbria's Senior Research Fellow for The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this work (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors.
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Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2025 14:19
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2025 08:00
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/9152

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