Beyond the Text? Public Engagement, Knowledge Production, and Creative Outputs

This session will explore the practice and ethics of producing and reporting outputs from sociological research, and then bringing those into the public domain through formats such as Sociological Research Online's Beyond the Text. This paper will draw on the example of the Support, Genders and Sexualities Project, an NIHR School for Social Care funded research project, which sought to represent and share narratives from the study through a short film created from the research. This film explored the experiences of LGBT+ disabled young adults who use personal assistance. The paper will explore the forms of involvement involved in producing the document, the questions it sought to respond to around sharing stories from the research, and what it means to consider sharing these documents as research outputs that can be "written up". This paper will then open up discussion about how we plan for publication of research outputs in the design of our research in a context in which universities and funders increasingly promote more involved/inclusive forms of knowledge production, including co-production.