What “Coproduction” in Participatory Research Means From Participants’ Perspectives: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Inquiry

In participatory health research, people with lived experience of illness participate as co-researchers in the co-production knowledge along academic researchers. A central idea is to democratize production by creating space for co-researchers’ experiential, embodied knowledge. The research literature includes reflexive analyses exploring complexities research. However, despite democratic ideals, these are almost always written researchers alone. this article, two Parkinson’s disease and an researcher carry out a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into what “co-production” means participants from their own perspectives . so doing, article presents illustrates distinctive format autoethnography method that enables investigate, write, publish about together through dialogue across personal narratives. It also specific insider insights generated participants.