ABSTRACT
Good understanding of its potential impact by researchers is clearly beneficial and can be supported through the co-production process. One of the major barriers to engaging academics in co-production work within certain public health practitioner settings is the constraint put on the type of experiment that can be conducted. It would be unusual to be able to carry out a randomised controlled trial in a local authority setting for example. One of the key aspirations of the co-production evaluation programme has always been to achieve publication within peer-reviewed journals. To ensure all public health senior management team had a full appreciation of the commitment to undertake a co-produced evaluation the following roles and responsibilities agreement was constructed. Timelines inevitably waver slightly due to ethics or the coordination of focus groups or a myriad of other legitimate reasons. However, wherever possible the evaluations are completed within a 12-month period.
