'Learning and growing together': exploring consumer partnerships in a PhD, an ethnographic study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Consumer and community involvement (CCI) in health research is increasingly recognised as best practice and is closely linked with calls for epistemic justice and more transparent university collaborations with consumers. Given doctoral candidates play a key role in the future of co-production, examination of consumer partnerships in PhDs is important. This study aimed to describe and evaluate consumer partnerships in a PhD from the perspective of the consumer co-researchers, the PhD candidate, and the academic supervisors including optimal approaches, impacts, and benefits and challenges.

Methods

This prospective, co-produced ethnographic study was conducted over 33 months. Data collection included field notes, a monthly online log of partnership experiences and

SUBMITTER: Cox R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10014401 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature