ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that to co-produce research is one of the best ways to involve community partners in health and social care settings. It discusses that the most effective way to conduct research is through a synthesis of participatory research, critical pedagogy, peer research and community organising, a model called Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research (PPIR). This synthesis was designed to address the different flaws and limitations of each approach and bring them together into a complementary framework. The book describes PPIR as an ethnopraxis, in that it seeks to root the framework for research from issue identification, to methodology, to analysis and dissemination, within the local ways of knowing of research participants. Ethical guidelines remain deontological sets of rules which privilege neoliberal constructions of the individual, rather than looking at wider political notions of what makes for 'being ethical'.
