Introduction This realist literature review, regarding active patient involvement in healthcare
quality improvement (QI), seeks to identify possible mechanisms that contribute to success …

Background Health committees are key mechanisms for enabling participation of community
members in decision-making on matters related to their health. This paper aims to establish …

Co-production and co-design practices are increasingly being promoted to develop user-
centred public services. Analysing these practices with literature on power, participation and …

Improving co-design methods implies that we need to understand those methods, paying
attention to not only the effect of method choices on design outcomes, but also how methods …

Background Knowledge mobilisation requires the effective elicitation and blending of
different types of knowledge or ways of knowing, to produce hybrid knowledge outputs that …

Objective This essay discusses applying the Conceptual Framework for Patient and Family
Engagement to partnerships with patients and consumers to increase their use of research …

There is substantial difficulty with effectively, and meaningfully, engaging the public with
community-based sustainability projects as a method to facilitate sustainable lifestyles …

Background Co-production and co-design approaches to quality improvement (QI) efforts
are gaining momentum in healthcare. Yet, these approaches can be challenging, not least …

The transitions literature has framed energy transitions as a process involving material and
social consequences. Such radical changes can also be viewed as constituting discursive …

Co‐methodological working is gaining increasing traction in healthcare, but studies with
older people have been slower to develop. Our aim was to investigate how and how well …