Sawkins, Joanna;
(2024)
Coproduction and the participation of community organisations with urban policymaking: an action study of ‘Citizen-Led’ research in London.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis investigates coproduction in the context of the participation of community organisations with urban policy research. It contributes knowledge on feeling and emotion in community-based participatory policy research and engages with calls for inquiry into the causes of failure in citizen participation. The study is grounded in debates about the relationship that urban policymaking has with local knowledge. It uses theories of coproduction to analyse how and why one specific London participation programme (led by the Greater London Authority (GLA) in the period 2018–2020) failed to meaningfully involve community organisations with policymaking. It mobilises the findings of related research to recommend how failure in future London participation programmes could be averted. This thesis uses an action research methodology and deploys a multi-method approach involving the analysis of documents, fieldnotes and journals. The empirical research describes the relationship a community organisation called You Press developed with the GLA. It shows how the author and staff in both organisations tried to work together to co-design a participatory policy research project. The analysis explains the personal and institutional challenges of working across government and community boundaries. The research findings show how frustrating, exhausting, and demoralising the work of government–community co-design can be. While the research does not overcome these problems, it does give them a grounding, showing how specific areas in the design of the GLA’s participation programme seriously limited the building of relationships between its staff and those in community organisations. The study argues for the value a coproduction ethics based on ideas of care could bring to government–community collaboration, especially in participation situations where feelings of togetherness and connection amongst people are low.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Coproduction and the participation of community organisations with urban policymaking: an action study of ‘Citizen-Led’ research in London |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| Keywords: | coproduction, co-production, public participation, community-based participatory policy research, failure, emotions, Greater London Authority (GLA), Citizen-Led, community engagement, co-design, action research, feminist care ethics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188307 |
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