Getting our house in order: improving conditions for co-produced research in UK higher education

On 5th December 2024 the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry launched its Call for Evidence and Ideas during an online event. The Co-Pro Futures Inquiry is a two-year project (2024-2026) funded by Research England Participatory Research Funds.

Getting our house in order

The Inquiry is being led Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield. The Co-leads are Professors  Beth Perry, Catherine Durose, and Liz Richardson.

The Co-Pro Futures Inquiry will propose measures to address barriers to participatory and co-produced research within universities and the higher education sector. Over the next two years this will involve workshops, desk-based secondary analysis, interviews, and a high-profile panel who will identify actions that can be put into practice. 
 
The Call for Evidence and Ideas is one key way that we want to gather collective intelligence to support the sector-wide deliberation and development of an action plan. 

The call for submissions is open until February 28th 2025.

We are looking for evidence of the size and scale of the problem and actions and solutions that are already being tried and tested submitted by academic researchers, co-researchers, partner organisations, professional service staff, University leaders and managers, infrastructure organisations, funders, higher education policy-makers.

You can watch the recording of Beth Perry introducing the Inquiry here and download a background report for the call for evidence and ideas has been produced, along with a visual summary of how to submit evidence. 

We are inviting people to submit evidence via:

You can also find us on Bluesky: @coprofutures.bsky.social

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