Tangible co-production?: Engaging and creating with fathers

Iryna Culpin; Esther M Dermott; Jonathan C S Ives; Julie MacLeavy

doi:10.1111/area.12691

Tangible co-production? Engaging and creating with fathers

Iryna Culpin, Esther M Dermott, Jonathan C S Ives, Julie MacLeavy^*

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Abstract

This article adds to an increasing body of social science literature, which engages with the research practice of ‘co-production’. It aims to make a distinctive contribution by suggesting that what is produced under this process should be given greater attention. Previous literature has focused on the ‘co’ (cooperative) element: debating whether and under what conditions wider participation between academic and non-academic actors can be genuinely emancipatory, and the degree to which more radical research approaches centred on empowering marginalised groups have been usurped through management discourses of participatory governance. Drawing on a case study of a pilot project that developed support resources for new fathers under the auspices of a co-production research design, the article highlights the dynamics and limitations of the process, but additionally and distinctively suggests an important way in which the success of co-production can be judged that includes practical and tangible outputs beyond academic knowledge and takes objects and materiality seriously as a dimension of co-production in an academic setting.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-37
Number of pages	8
Journal	Area
Volume	53
Issue number	1
Early online date	1 Dec 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12691
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2021

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Funding Information:
The project on which this paper reflects was funded by the University of Bristol’s Brigstow Institute, with further support (funded research time) from the Wellcome Trust (Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social Science awarded to Dr Culpin; Grant ref: 212664/Z/18/Z). We would like to acknowledge the assistance of non‐academic partners Bluebell and Bristol City Council, which manages Blaise Castle House and Estate, and Brentry and Henbury Children’s Centre where some of activities were held. We would like to thank the many individuals who generously made time to talk to us about fatherhood for the purposes of this project. We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to the reviewers for reading our paper so attentively and for offering us two very thoughtful reviews.

Funding Information:
The project on which this paper reflects was funded by the University of Bristol?s Brigstow Institute, with further support (funded research time) from the Wellcome Trust (Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social Science awarded to Dr Culpin; Grant ref: 212664/Z/18/Z). We would like to acknowledge the assistance of non-academic partners Bluebell and Bristol City Council, which manages Blaise Castle House and Estate, and Brentry and Henbury Children?s Centre where some of activities were held. We would like to thank the many individuals who generously made time to talk to us about fatherhood for the purposes of this project. We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to the reviewers for reading our paper so attentively and for offering us two very thoughtful reviews.

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Keywords

Co-production
Fathers
Participatory research
Materiality
Tangible
Creative methods

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Conversations with Fathers
Ives, J. C. S. (Principal Investigator), Dermott, E. (Co-Investigator), Culpin, I. (Co-Investigator) & MacLeavy, J. (Co-Investigator)
9/05/16 → 9/05/17
Project: Research

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