Members invited to co-create Q's participation strategy

For the past six months, we’ve been working alongside the New Citizenship Project and members of the Q community, to uncover what’s important in enabling people to collaborate to improve health and care. You can read more about the work so far on the Q blog. 

In the next phase of this project, we’ll be drawing on an action learning process to test and prototype ideas before finalising an overall strategy for achieving a more participatory Q. 

By taking this approach, we hope to create both a better-informed strategy, and a process of learning-by-doing as a community, which we can take into future work.

What will we be exploring?

Based on the themes from the work so far, we’ve landed on two questions to explore through this action learning process: 

• How might we make the ways we navigate Q purposeful and participatory?
• How might we foster purposeful groups that develop connections and confidence?

What will I gain from taking part?

You’ll be supporting the whole community to increase our impact by generating new ways of collaborating to improve health and care. 

We also hope it will be a productive and enjoyable experience for everyone involved, and even spark some ideas for you.

How can I get involved?

Any Q member is invited to get involved as a ​‘tester’. In this role, we’ll be asking you to take part in one or more ​‘experiments’. 

This could be filling out a questionnaire, sharing a story, contributing an idea, taking part in a short activity or something else entirely. The exact shape of what you’ll be asked to do is still to be decided, but it is an exciting opportunity to try out new ways of coming together. 

Taking part will likely require a few hours or less of your time. If you’d like to get involved but there’s something standing in your way, please do get in touch so we can find out how we might be able to support you.