co-production

Blach and white photo. Elspeth Beard astride her BMW motorbike, with large side and rear panniers (designed and built by her out of sheet aluminium and rivets), with a white helmet resting on the handlebars. She's wearing jeans, leather boots, and a leather jacket. She's parked up outside what looks like a warehouse, looking off camera.

Reading 1

June 28, 2025July 6, 2025
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This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour 15 mins Image credit: Motorcyclist… Read More »Reading 1

Case study: co-production masterclass

February 19, 2025June 5, 2025
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Who: As an associate of the Co-production Lab Wales, I delivered three co-production training sessions… Read More »Case study: co-production masterclass

Photo of a sign in Stowbridge, showing within a horseshoe a windmills, an industrial wheel, a bridge, someone ploughing a field with horses, and a blacksmith at work.

Case study: learning sessions on co-production

December 4, 2024December 23, 2024
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Who: As an associate for Platfform, I worked with Julian Support as part of the… Read More »Case study: learning sessions on co-production

Presentation slide covering Values in action; on the left, co-production values, and on the right, what they look like in action. Value all participants, and build on their strengths. - Enable everyone to participate fully (equity); people must feel safe, valued, heard, understood. Develop networks across silos. - Work across boundaries and hierarchies. Pay attention to those outside of traditional systems. Do what matters for the people involved. - Listen to understand people’s context and experience first, before bringing your agenda. Build relationships of trust and share power. - Share ideas, make decisions together, test things, give (and take) honest constructive feedback. People can be change makers, and organisations become enablers. - Use positional power to remove barriers, and change the rules and permissions.

Case study: learning session on power and co-production

July 15, 2024August 27, 2024
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Who: Platfform (the mental health and social change people), as part of the New System… Read More »Case study: learning session on power and co-production

Glossary of engagement terminology

August 25, 2022March 15, 2025
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(Originally published on the Co-production Network for Wales knowledge base.) A number of terms are… Read More »Glossary of engagement terminology

Atlantic College seen from the air. In the foreground, historical buildings with castle-like crenellations. Further back, more modern buildings, with plenty of green spaces in between. All around are fields and trees, and off on the edge is the sea.

Case study: co-designing a staff housing policy

April 9, 2021August 25, 2024
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Who: Atlantic College, an international boarding school in Wales. The brief: Two co-design workshops with… Read More »Case study: co-designing a staff housing policy

Public service operating principles, in two columns. See the main post for details.

Public service operating principles

August 15, 2019August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) Last month I drafted a table contrasting the traditional command-and-control approach… Read More »Public service operating principles

Double exposed photo of a crowd of people, they are captured in several positions at once.

On movement building

July 22, 2019August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) It’s an asymmetrical game, with tons of behavioral research working against… Read More »On movement building

A road passes over a bridge on a lake and disappears into the distance.

Co-production in public services: a complex journey of change

July 2, 2017August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) “Co-production is an asset-based approach to public services which enables citizens… Read More »Co-production in public services: a complex journey of change