Co-Production and Children's Voices
Hearing and understanding the voice of children, young people and their families underpins the ethos of SCYPHeR. Rather than being the subject of research, children and young people, and their families should shape research that focuses on the issues important to them.
We believe that involvement of children and young people, and their families, in research must not be tokenistic, and as a very minimum, they should be consulted about the relevance of the research to meet their needs, with the co-production of research the ideal.
Rather than standing alone, we consider co-production a crosscutting theme that will enable children, as appropriate, young people and their families to contribute to the research agenda and priorities across all themes and SCYPHeR activities.
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Theme Coordinators
Professor Jo Smith
Professor of Nursing in Child Health - joint appointment between School of Health & Social Care, College of Health & Wellbeing & Life Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust
Professor Jo Smith is a registered adult and children’s nurse with extensive leadership experience both in NHS settings (primarily supporting children with complex surgical needs) and academia.
Jo's research areas include involving children, young people with a long-term condition and families in care decisions; and interventions, in particular digital applications, to support children and young people with life limiting/threatening conditions that meet their psychological and existential needs.
Contact: joanna.smith@shu.ac.uk or joanna.smith94@nhs.net
Research spotlight
Dr Jill Thompson was a co-investigator on a collaborative research and development project to produce a mixed realities (physical, augmented and virtual reality) play kit to help prepare children to have an MRI scan without a general anaesthetic. Children were included throughout the research projects, as co-designers and testers of the play kit. See below for more details including a clip which was filmed for the CBBC show 'Operation Ouch'.
