Open AccessCo-production for or against the university: student loneliness and the commodification of impact in COVID-19
Author(s) -
Fred Cooper,
Charlotte Jones
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
qualitative research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.284
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1448-0980
pISSN - 1443-9883
DOI - 10.1108/qrj-02-2021-0016
Subject(s) - reflexivity , context (archaeology) , loneliness , sociology , public relations , production (economics) , commodification , pedagogy , psychology , political science , social science , social psychology , economics , paleontology , macroeconomics , biology , market economy
This paper explores the dissonance between co-production and expectations of impact in a research project on student loneliness over the 2019/2020 academic year. Specific characteristics of the project - the subject matter, interpolation of a global respiratory pandemic, informal systems of care that arose among students, and role of the university in providing the context and funding for the research - brought co-production into heightened tension with the instrumentalisation of project outputs.