How far does an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and co-production in research present a threat to academic identity and autonomy? A prospective study across five European countries
How far does an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and co-production in research present a threat to academic identity and autonomy? A prospective study across five European countries
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DOI：
10.1093/reseval/rvab013
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发表时间：
2021-05-08
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
O'Shea, Alison
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作者：
Boaz, Annette;Borst, Robert;O'Shea, Alison
人们越来越认识到，需要做更多的工作，以确保研究有助于更好的卫生服务和患者结果。利益攸关方参与研究，包括联合生产，已被确定为提高研究的价值、相关性和利用率的一种有前途的机制。本文介绍了一项前瞻性研究的结果，该研究探索了利益相关者参与一个为期3年的欧洲烟草控制研究项目的影响。该研究项目旨在让利益攸关方参与在五个欧盟国家(荷兰、西班牙、匈牙利、德国和英国)开发、测试和传播投资回报工具。前瞻性研究包括访谈、观察和文献回顾。分析的重点是项目小组在研究项目过程中对利益攸关方参与的认识、概念化和可操作性的程度。利益攸关方参与欧洲研究项目的概念被认为是其工作方案内预先指定的空间的一个关键特征。然而，在项目过程中，工具开发工作和利益攸关方参与活动脱钩。虽然建模和工具开发变得更加与世隔绝，但利益攸关方的参与活动从共同制作到咨询，再到更容易识别的研究参与，微妙地转变了。这篇文章的贡献不是反对利益相关者参与和共同制作的潜在贡献，而是表明即使是精心规划的参与活动也可以在现有的研究资助和研究生产系统中被转移，在现有的研究资助和研究生产系统中，非研究利益相关者仍然处于边缘，甚至可能被视为对学术认同和自主的威胁。
There is a growing recognition that needs more to be done to ensure that research contributes to better health services and patient outcomes. Stakeholder engagement in research, including co-production, has been identified as a promising mechanism for improving the value, relevance and utilization of research. This article presents findings from a prospective study which explored the impact of stakeholder engagement in a 3-year European tobacco control research project. That research project aimed to engage stakeholders in the development, testing and dissemination of a return-on-investment tool across five EU countries (the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Germany and the UK). The prospective study comprised interviews, observations and document review. The analysis focused on the extent to which the project team recognized, conceptualized and operationalized stakeholder engagement over the course of the research project. Stakeholder engagement in the European research project was conceptualized as a key feature of pre-designated spaces within their work programme. Over the course of the project, however, the tool development work and stakeholder engagement activities decoupled. While the modelling and tool development became more secluded, stakeholder engagement activities subtly transformed from co-production, to consultation, to something more recognizable as research participation. The contribution of this article is not to argue against the potential contribution of stakeholder engagement and co-production, but to show how even well-planned engagement activities can be diverted within the existing research funding and research production systems where non-research stakeholders remain at the margins and can even be seen as a threat to academic identify and autonomy.