Valuing Voices
The Valuing Voices for Equitable and Responsible Research project supports best practice in research and research culture.
Our main focus is the creation of a toolkit that will guide the development of responsible research and innovation. The toolkit has been co-produced by members of our research community, including practitioners, stakeholders and global partners.
Working together we have identified core principles of responsible and equitable research. The toolkit guides researchers through these core areas to ensure they are considered from the start of the research project.
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Ten principles for Equitable and Responsible Research
Appropriateness
Research processes fit with context, needs and circumstances of partners and beneficiaries.
Co-production of research
Research design, delivery and recommendations are co-produced with beneficiaries and end-users.
Interdisciplinarity
Learning between and across disciplines, valuing disciplinary perspectives in the research process.
Team equity and diversity
Team members bring diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
Anticipation and mitigation of risks
Risks and assumptions are identified and mitigated through appropriate strategies.
Environmental sustainability
Potential environmental impacts are identified, reduced and mitigated.
Projects Funded by Valuing Voices
Valuing Voices Agile Funding
The Valuing Voices project is excited to announce that we will be working closely with 12 projects at York that we have awarded funding to through our agile funding call. These projects applied through a competitive process and will be using their funding over the next year projects to:
a) apply the principles to their own research design and / or project implementation,
b) develop practical models to establish equitable teams, and
c) develop practical models for establishing global equity
The funded projects:
Dr Jo Rose, Dr Kelly Redeker, Prof. Kathryn Arnold
Developing Collaborative Solutions for Reducing Open Agricultural Burning in Thailand
Mehreen Faisal, Hannah Maria Jennings, Faraz Siddiqui, Gerardo Zavala
Fostering Authorship Inclusion and Representation in Global Health Research (FAIR Global Health Research)
Simona Manni, Lina Gega
Empowering Choices: Navigating Participant Anonymity and Recognition in Participatory Research
Dr Alexander Reid, Dr Amanda Hickey, Alice Bennett, Lilian Joy
Developing a toolkit of best practice for the recruitment of disabled student participants in research [with matched funding from UoY EDI Fund]
Kelli Kennedy, Amy Barnes & Carolyn Snell
Co-producing Bradford’s Just Transition to Net Zero
Saima Afaq, Kamran Siddiqi
Global Equity in Research: A Gender-Inclusive Approach
Andy Dougill, Eleanor Jew, Gideon Baffoe
Evaluating Transformations in Ghana’s Urban Food Systems
Dr. Karisha Kimone George
Development of an EDI protections policy
Emma Willingham, Emma Brown, Sue Edmunds, Jay Harrison, Damian Murphy, Dan Norman, Sophie Palmer, Joe Rees-Jones, John Rose-Adams
Research to Action: Advancing team equity and inclusive research and project design in the immersive technology industry
Lindsey Gillson, Brennen Fagan, Jonathan Finch, Jonny Gordon, Pen Holland, Chris Lyon, Rob Marchant, Inês Martins, Jon Pitchford
Participatory Approaches Across Contexts: synthesis, application, and reflection on landscape change
Pippa Cooper, Ruth Kelly, Piergiuseppe Parisi, Harriet Gray
Addressing the challenges that institutional processes pose to equitable research with global south partners
Andrew Mott, Professor Catriona McDaid, Dr Jude Watson, Dr Suman Prinjha
Exploring how implementation of Valuing Voices principles improve the design phase of randomised controlled trials and reduce research waste: A qualitative study
A partnership project
Valuing Voices is a two-year project, funded by Wellcome, in partnership with colleagues from Mahidol University in Thailand.
Contact us
Contact us to find out more about the launch of the toolkit or to get involved in the project.