Open AccessTrauma informed participatory research: Reflections on co-producing a research proposal
Author(s) -
Sarah Lonbay,
Amy Pearson,
Emma Hamilton,
Pat Higgins,
Emma Foulkes,
Michelle Glascott
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gateways
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1836-3393
DOI - 10.5130/ijcre.v14i1.7728
Subject(s) - participatory action research , empowerment , work (physics) , engineering ethics , process (computing) , reflection (computer programming) , trustworthiness , sociology , citizen journalism , psychology , knowledge management , engineering , political science , computer science , social psychology , mechanical engineering , anthropology , law , programming language , operating system
This article discusses the development of a co-produced research proposal. The authors reflect on the process of this work and some of the challenges that were experienced by a team who had a mix of lived, clinical and academic experience of the research topic. We highlight the need to embed trauma informed principles into co-produced research and the ways in which doing so can support the development of co-produced work. As such, the article focuses on how we established safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness and empowerment during the process of developing the proposal. Within this we offer our reflection on some of the challenges we experienced and our learning from undertaking this work.