Cripping Breath: Co-production, Community and Complexity: Two talks

• In this post, we will tell you about two Cripping Breath presentations, to the University of York Department of Sociology seminar series, and to the steering group of the Equal Breath Priority Setting Partnership.

This week, we had the opportunity to talk to two different audiences about Cripping Breath as a project, and specifically the role of the community researcher co-operative.

We spoke to the University of York Department of Sociology, as part of their Research Live! seminar series. We spoke about the ethos of Cripping Breath, crip time and the importance of co-production across the project. We also spoke about our ongoing collaborative work reflecting on our experiences of co-production, and the useful lessons we have learnt so far in the Narrative Stream of the project.

The post-talk discussion raised interesting sociological points about multiple temporalities, the social lives of technology, and the relationship between data and analysis in relation to our interviews. This presentation also highlighted a high level of interest in resources on the realities of doing co-production, and we hope we can offer this through our co-written papers and outputs from across the project.

We also joined a meeting of the steering group of the Equal Breath Priority Setting Partnership. This is led by Asthma and Lung UK and the Black in Biomedical Research Advisory Group and funded by the Medical Research Council, and is working to address respiratory health disparities affecting people of Black heritage in the UK through a priority-setting process with the James Lind Alliance. We connected with Equal Breath due to our shared interest in respiratory inequalities, and commitment to involving communities in research that affects them.

In this setting, we were able to briefly explain Cripping Breath and our approaches to co-production. Our talk garnered interest from attendees, and we’ve identified useful connections for the project. It was fascinating to hear about the issues being identified through the priority-setting process, and we encourage everyone to follow the work of Equal Breath.

As we continue to talk about Cripping Breath and share what we’re learning with different audiences, we’re conscious of how interested, and inspired people are by the work we’re doing. Sharing the work of Cripping Breath, and particularly the Community Researcher Cooperative, highlights the importance of working to co-create knowledge, and the need to continue to negotiate the complexities of co-production. We look forward to talking more about our work in the future, particularly as we finalise our useful lessons on co-production, and develop and share practical resources for researchers, community groups and universities.