2025 Gathering Recordings
Welcome, Introductions and Updates
network coordination team
Science Ceilidh
In this video, members of the network coordination team offer introductions, set the space with a brief icebreaker, and give an overview of the day’s programme. This also include a brief context and an update from the network. Further updates include a presentation on Exploring Experiences of Power in Community-Led Research with Sophie Rose Kendrick and Lewis Hou.
Community-Led Research Spotlights
OPEN Youth-Led Charity Transformational change
Rhiannan Burns, Shannon Boston, Una MurraY
OPEN (Shetland)
This spotlight highlights OPEN’s transformational journey to becoming Shetland’s first youth-led charity. Together, young people, professional researchers and decision makers have built strong partnerships, shared knowledge, and created new ways of working that put young people’s voices at the heart of community decisions. From developing a unique governance structure to leading research projects, OPEN has shown how evidence from young people can shape real change.
Citizen Influence: Harnessing people power in community led research
Aimee Wright and Heidi Tweedie
Moray Wellbeing Hub CIC
This spotlight shares the journey the Moray Wellbeing Hub has experienced in research. The presentation covers their learning so far reframing their activities through the lens of research, developing partnerships, exploring the role of peer research, and taking a values-based approach to community research. This journey began with promoting positive wellbeing for all and harnessing the power of lived experience in Moray, leading to the eventual founding of Collaboration for Mental Wealth, a Community Research Network in Moray, as a peer-led social movement for change.
Growing Together with Space 2 Be, Lochaber
Nick Barnes, Katy Duncan, Jack Soe-Paing
NHS Highland and Space 2 Be
This spotlight shares how community-led research has enabled and informed co-development and sustainability of outdoor, wilderness and nature connected opportunities for children, young people and families in Lochaber.
Space 2 Be shares some experiences setting up and delivering opportunities, including insights from the perspectives of a participant, peer researcher, provider, and researcher. The presentation covers their journey, from initial steps of collaboration, through a culture of co-production and peer-led research, and on to allowing for the potential of wider systems change.
Beyond Barriers: Bringing the First Playstreet to Inverness
Emily Kynaston-Williams
Crown Connects
A playstreet is a really simple concept - residents can come together to open their street for play and socialising by temporarily closing it to cars. The reality of making this happen in Inverness has been far from simple. This spotlight presents the journey of the first playstreet held in the Highland Council region. The spotlight shares the joy of a playstreet and the research into the barriers to the scheme in Scotland.