Developing a Women's Thought Collective methodology for health research: The roles and responsibilities of researchers in the reflexive co‐production of knowledge.
Background: Co‐produced research holds enormous value within the health sciences. Yet, there can be a heavy focus on what research participants think, do and know; while the researcher's responsibility to explore and re/work their own knowledge or praxis tends to escape from view. This is reflected...
| Publicado en: | Health Expectations Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 1954 - 1965 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2023
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