People-powered research: but what actually is it?

People-powered research: but what actually is it?

As John mentioned in his last blog post, our communities are at the heart of ActEarly. If we’re going to achieve sustainable changes in health and our ‘systems’ that promote health then we need to start in harnessing the views and creativity of our citizens. We like to think of the ActEarly project as ‘people-powered’. […]

What do we mean when we say co-production?

ActEarly has made a great start and is already breaking new ground – for example, putting co-production at the centre of everything it does. Such an approach is much needed but it can throw up challenges and I talk through some of these in this blog. I’m sure there are many of you who have […]

ActEarly workshop, September 2019

The first ActEarly workshop was held on 26th September 2019 at Salts Mill, Saltaire. These workshops will be held twice a year, alternating between Bradford and London. The aim of the workshops is to provide an important opportunity for all academic, practice, policy and community partners to share ideas and plan projects but is also […]