Community Researchers in Co-production: Innovations from the Field: Reflections from the 'Productive Margins' and 'Imagine' Research Programmes.

This session opens a critical conversation about the utilisation of community researchers within co-produced research partnerships. The session draws on concrete examples from two UK research programmes: 'Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement' and 'Imagine' to examine the potentiality and limitations of the role community researchers within co-produced research. In particular, asking what ‘training’ for community researchers can come to mean in practice. The session will facilitate a critical interdisciplinary dialogue about the positionality of the community researcher role within and beyond co-produced and collaborative research partnerships.