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December 12, 2024
As we wrap up 2024, we're excited to share the latest news from Co-Production Collective. This month, we celebrated the achievements of the Measuring Success in Co-production programme as well as the Ear Checks Programme, which was shortlisted for an award at the Health Service Journal Awards, recognising the team’s efforts to reduce healthcare inequalities for children and young people. Big thank you for your support and contributions to Co-Production Collective in 2024 and we look forward to continuing to champion co-production with you in 2025.
We hosted Measuring Success in Co-production – Celebration and Learning event which celebrated the experiences and outputs of the eight project teams funded in the programme. Alongside our Measuring Success team all eight funded project teams shared some of their experiences and collective learning gained during this journey. The event took place on Zoom and had over 140 participants and was a mix of presentations and interactive sessions where people could delve deeper into what was learned. You can find out more about the event our blog coming soon. Thank you for everyone who came, and congratulations to the Measuring Success project team and the eight funded projects!
The Ear Checks Programme we have been working on with NHS England was shortlisted for an award at the Health Service Journal Awards. The award recognises innovative and creative initiatives which aim to reduce healthcare inequalities for children and young people. Thank you to Tympa Health Technologies Ltd for being a medical technology partner in this project and sponsoring our attendance.
We ran two training sessions for students on the UCL Wellcome Health Science PhD programme. Nicc, Chloe, and Naheen kicked off the first session for the fifth and final cohort of students by giving them an introduction to co-production. Chloe, Siobhan, and Nicc also worked with the fourth cohort of students. This most recent session focused on helping them develop plans for their final projects and supporting them to explore how they can incorporate perspectives from people with lived experience into their research.
Sarah went to the launch event for projects funded by UK Research and Innovation as part of a new interdisciplinary funding scheme. We are part of the COMMET Project, which is funded by this scheme and is aiming to co-produce mathematical models that tell us more about how infectious diseases spread. We are currently looking for two co-producers to join our team! Read more about this opportunity in our blog, the deadline for applications is Monday 6 January 10:00 (UK time).
George, Nicc, Rachel and Priya have been supporting various co-production sessions for the projects that are part of the Policy Research Unit in Reproductive Health.
Nicc is attending the NIHR Challenge: Maternity Inequalities Pre and Interconception Networking Event. This event is part of a project that we are working on with Southampton University, UK Preconception Partnership and several Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) that aims find new ways to provide better care and support before and between pregnancies for women from minority backgrounds and those living in less advantaged areas.
The Policy Research Unit in Reproductive Health (which we are supporting to work in a co-produced way) will be hosting their first Advisory Group Meeting co-chaired by Isaac Samuels and Alison Hadley. We recently help to recruit 20 people to join the Advisory Group half with lived and half with learnt experience. You can read more about their role in this blog. Thanks to all of you who applied for this opportunity. We will be sharing more about this in the new year.
Nicc and Stuart will be doing a lunch and learn session about Co-Production Collective and how we came about for City St Georges, part of University of London.
As you may have seen, we recently launched our 2024 Community Survey to help us understand how our community engage with Co-Production Collective and explore what else we could do improve this. The survey will take you no more than 15 minutes to complete and we'd love your input into this. If you haven’t filled it in yet there is still time, so please do so and help us spread the word. If you would like to read more about the survey including why we are doing it and payment available you can in this blog.
The UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science are looking for two people to join the executive board of the new British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence. This is a regular monthly commitment to be part of the research project and the team that oversees the work of the Centre. The meetings take place online, although we expect to meet in-person around once every 4 months or so. Travel expenses will be provided for in-person meetings.
We are looking for people with lived experience that relates to the work of the Centre. You may have inherited a cardiovascular disease, have developed or be at risk of developing a cardiovascular disease and have an interest in health inequalities, heart conditions and available treatments. We are particularly interested in hearing from people from a racialised background which means you might have a higher chance of developing these conditions.
The Executive Board takes place on the third Tuesday of every month from 13:00 – 14:00 (UK time).
The Centre has funding for the next 5 years, and we are looking for people who can commit for at least one year, although we hope you may be interested in staying longer! Payment will be in line with our payment policy.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please take a look at the themes of the Centre and send us a short email (no more than 250 words) to coproduction@ucl.ac.uk confirming your availability and letting us know why you would like to be involved.
The deadline to for applying to be part of this project is Monday 20 January at 12:00 noon (UK time).
As we mentioned earlier in this blog, we are looking for two co-producers to take part in this project. The deadline for taking part Monday 6 January 10:00 (UK time). You can read more about this opportunity in our blog.
We are looking for four co-producers to join a project to develop an online co-production training course for UCL staff and students.
There will be two workshops to help shape the training content, with the option to also be involved in recording the voiceover for the course if you are interested. Payment will be in line with our payment policy.
Workshops are expected to take place in January and February 2025.
If you have experience of being involved in a co-production project and would like to share your thoughts and expertise, please contact us to express an interest by Monday 20 January at 12:00 noon (UK time).
Our second LinkedIn introduction training is coming up on Tuesday 4 February at 14:00 (UK time). The session aims to develop participants’ understanding of LinkedIn, enabling them to stay updated with the Collective and engage in discussions about co-production and other topics of interest on the platform. We designed this session with our community - you can read our reflections and how we co-created the training in this blog. To learn more about the event and book your ticket visit our Eventbrite page.
Thank you for coming to our December Co-Pro Cuppa! It was great to see many of you there and great discussions on a variety of topics including how to best support people to be involved in co-production; the benefits aside from remuneration that they get from being involved; and the importance of setting realistic expectations for the scope of co-production projects.
Our next Co-Pro Cuppas will take place on:
If you have any questions or would like to know more about our work, please get in contact by emailing us on coproduction@ucl.ac.uk
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