Learning from the CO‐CREATE project: A protocol for systems thinking across research (STAR)

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dc.abstract.enThe CO-CREATE project aimed to work with young people to create, inform, and disseminate obesity-preventive evidence-based policies using a complex systems perspective. This paper draws lessons from this experience and proposes a protocol for embedding systems thinking within a research project. We first draw on existing systems thinking frameworks to analyze how systems thinking was translated across CO-CREATE, including the flow and relationship between the work packages and in the methods used. We then take the lessons from CO-CREATE and the principles of existing systems thinking frameworks—which focus on various points of intervention planning and delivery but not on research projects as a whole—to formulate a protocol for embedding systems thinking across a research project. Key lessons for future planning and delivery of systems-oriented research projects include incorporating “boundary critique” by capturing key stakeholder (adolescent) values and concerns; working to avoid social exclusion; ensuring methodological pluralism to allow for reflection and responsiveness (with methods ranging from group model building, Photovoice, and small group engagement); getting policy recipients to shape key questions by understanding their views on the critical drivers of obesity early on in the project; and providing opportunity for intraproject reflection along the way.
dc.affiliationInstitute of Psychology
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorKnai, Cécile
dc.contributor.authorSavona, Natalie
dc.contributor.authorFinegood, Diane
dc.contributor.authorAguiar, Anaely
dc.contributor.authorBlanchard, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorConway-Moore, Kaitlin
dc.contributor.authorHelleve, Arnfinn
dc.contributor.authorKlepp, Knut-Inge
dc.contributor.authorLien, Nanna
dc.contributor.authorŁuszczyńska, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorVlad, Ioana
dc.contributor.authorRønnestad, Alfred Mestad
dc.contributor.authorRutter, Harry
dc.date.access2023-09-27
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T11:37:55Z
dc.date.available2024-01-10T11:37:55Z
dc.date.created2023-07-22
dc.date.issued2023-09-27
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>The CO‐CREATE project aimed to work with young people to create, inform, and disseminate obesity‐preventive evidence‐based policies using a complex systems perspective. This paper draws lessons from this experience and proposes a protocol for embedding systems thinking within a research project. We first draw on existing systems thinking frameworks to analyze how systems thinking was translated across CO‐CREATE, including the flow and relationship between the work packages and in the methods used. We then take the lessons from CO‐CREATE and the principles of existing systems thinking frameworks—which focus on various points of intervention planning and delivery but not on research projects as a whole—to formulate a protocol for embedding systems thinking across a research project. Key lessons for future planning and delivery of systems‐oriented research projects include incorporating “boundary critique” by capturing key stakeholder (adolescent) values and concerns; working to avoid social exclusion; ensuring methodological pluralism to allow for reflection and responsiveness (with methods ranging from group model building, Photovoice, and small group engagement); getting policy recipients to shape key questions by understanding their views on the critical drivers of obesity early on in the project; and providing opportunity for intraproject reflection along the way.</jats:p>
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dc.description.grantnumberCO-CREATE project, European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, No. 774210
dc.description.granttitleConfronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
dc.description.issueS2
dc.description.physical1-11
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/obr.13624
dc.identifier.issn1467-7881
dc.identifier.issn1467-789X
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/334
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obr.13624
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
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dc.subject.enadolescents
dc.subject.encomplex projects
dc.subject.enresearch planning
dc.subject.ensystems thinking
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dc.titleLearning from the CO‐CREATE project: A protocol for systems thinking across research (STAR)
dc.title.journalObesity Reviews
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle