Co-Designing for Equity: Examining Relationships and Dynamics in Design-Based Activities Embedded in Equity-Centered RPPs

• In Event: Systems Change for Equity: Insights from Design, Network, and Continuous Improvement Approaches

Abstract

This paper explores co-design as an increasingly important activity of equity-centered RPPs. Situated within an equity-centered RPP focused on school discipline disparities, we draw on interviews, observations, and partnership artifacts, to examine how collaboration between partners in the co-design of in-school suspensions facilitate research use. Our study examines how RPP participants perceive their role and the roles of others in the context of the RPP, as well as how school-level data use contributes to the pursuit of equity. In this study, we ask: How do perceptions of organizational power dynamics influence research use in a co-design embedded in an equity-centered RPP?

Authors

• Tia R. Williams, Vanderbilt University

• Richard O. Welsh, Vanderbilt University

• Ashlynn Nash, Vanderbilt University