This workshop invites postgraduate students to explore storytelling as a means of co-production in their research. Academic researchers play an essential role in instigating co-production processes and are uniquely positioned to support knowledge mobilization of communities bearing the burden of injustice. Specifically, we will explore community-led storytelling. Storytelling has been recognized as a qualitative methodological strategy that supports communities in narrating their daily experiences of injustices, build group power and advocate for structural change.

Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to facilitate these co-production spaces and identify ways to work that are accountable to communities in the pursuit of health equity. Four placements are available for students that are interested in collaborating on a deeper level–from planning, implementation and follow-up of this space. This is an excellent opportunity to learn how to organize a collaborative space and network with researchers doing work in this area.

We invite Ph.D. students who are at least 6-months full-time into their Ph.D. program (traditional route).

Location: The Storey Meeting House, Lancaster University

Date: Monday, October 2nd 2023

Time:12.30-5:00PM (Lunch and coffee break included)

Workshop Sessions: 

1. Setting the stage for co-production and mobilizing
2. Community Journalism as a Co-Production Method for Research
3. A Co-Production & Knowledge Mobilization Think Tank