[Commlist] new book: New Book on Co-Creation in Participatory Research and Practice

New Book on Co-Creation in Participatory Research and Practice
Louise Phillips
2025

"Embracing the messy complexities of co-creation: a dialogic approach to 
participatory qualitative inquiry" (Routledge, 2025) offers a critical 
and constructive approach to co-creation in participatory qualitative 
inquiry. Here's what the book's about, according to the back cover blurb:

Co-creation in participatory, qualitative research has become 
commonplace. It supports a myriad of collaborative practices – from 
service-user involvement in health and social care, to community 
capacity-building, to bottom-up climate change projects and so on. With 
its democratic ambitions, transformative power and (in some contexts) 
goals of social justice, co-creation has much to offer, particularly in 
these challenging times… but it is also complex and full of tensions.

The book offers an approach which recognises - and embraces - the messy 
complexities of co-creation. The approach is constructive – it revolves 
around creating openings for multiple voices; and, in particular, the 
voices of people with lived experience. And it is critical – it involves 
integrating critical, reflexive analyses of the intrinsic tensions in 
co-creation into the practice of research. The book brings participatory 
research into dialogue with poststructuralist, social constructionist 
and new materialist, posthumanist strands of qualitative inquiry. In an 
engaging and accessible way, the author weaves together personal 
storytelling and more detached analysis to illustrate her dialogic 
approach to producing and communicating knowledge as intertwined processes.

Here's a link to the website for the book: 
https://www.routledge.com/Embracing-the-Messy-Complexities-of-Co-Creation-A-Dialogic-Approach-to-Participatory-Qualitative-Inquiry/Phillips/p/book/9781032369686


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