a co-production values and principles compass to guide along the underused pathway; comment on “research coproduction: an underused pathway to impact”

Co-production in research is not only encouraged but rapidly becoming a required consideration in health research funding. the challenge in defining co-production continues and the misapplication of co-production has led to growing calls for an emphasis on operationalising the values and principles of co-production in research. this commentary considers rycroft-malone and colleagues’ key messages about co-production being more than a set of activities, and reflects on the challenges within the academic sector when applying co-production. the coproducing meaningful principles and sharing standards (co-mpass) tool offers a way to consider co-production values in the early stages of collaboration. rather than a stand-alone tool for co-production, it is intended to be used with established methods and published toolboxes to emphasise co-production principles through reflection, conversation, documentation, and learning.