Co-Production for or against the University: Student Loneliness and the Commodification of Impact in COVID-19

Autor/inn/en	Cooper, Fred; Jones, Charlotte
Titel	Co-Production for or against the University: Student Loneliness and the Commodification of Impact in COVID-19
Quelle	In: Qualitative Research Journal, 22 (2022) 1, S.81-95 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cooper, Fred) ORCID (Jones, Charlotte)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-9883
DOI	10.1108/QRJ-02-2021-0016
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; College Students; Foreign Countries; Mental Health; Distance Education; Interaction; Workshops; Student Attitudes; Interpersonal Relationship; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Collegestudent; Ausland; Psychohygiene; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Interaktion; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Schülerverhalten; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	Purpose: This paper explores the dissonance between co-production and expectations of impact in a research project on student loneliness over the 2019/2020 academic year. Specific characteristics of the project -- the subject matter, interpolation of a global respiratory pandemic, informal systems of care that arose among students and role of the university in providing the context and funding for the research -- brought co-production into heightened tension with the instrumentalisation of project outputs. Design/methodology/approach: The project consisted of a series of workshops, research meetings and mixed-methods online journalling between 2019 and 2020. This paper is primarily a critical reflection on that research, based on observations by and conversations between the authors, together with discourse analysis of research data. Findings: The authors argue that co-producing research with students on university contexts elevates existing tensions between co-production and institutional valuations of impact, that co-production with students who had experienced loneliness made necessary space for otherwise absent support and care, that the responsibility to advocate for evidence and co-researchers came into friction with how the university felt the research could be useful and that each of these converging considerations are interconnected symptoms of the ongoing marketisation of HE. Originality/value: This paper provides a novel analysis of co-production, impact and higher education in the context of an original research project with specific challenges and constraints. It is a valuable contribution to methodological literatures on co-production, multidisciplinary research into student loneliness and reflexive work on the difficult uses of evidence in university contexts. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01