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This session’s focus is on examples of survey research that have used participatory and collaborative approaches, including community-based participatory research (CBPR) designs, rights-based approaches, stakeholder involvement, user-led research, and survey research that employed co-researchers or peer-researchers in the process of survey data production and dissemination.

The participatory turn in social research as well as the focus on evidence-based policy making means that there is a growing scope for collaborative approaches in survey research and an increasing understanding that these approaches can be meaningful and achievable. Further, policy regulations in many European countries require decision makers to involve users in the development of services, and as surveys remain an important instrument in the development and monitoring of policy and services, collaborative approaches to survey research have recently multiplied and diversified. Examples of this can be found in areas such as health and social care, education, housing, children's and young people's rights, disability, ageing and the environment.

In this session we will therefore discuss examples of collaborative and participatory approaches to survey research. We invite papers that focus on all aspects of survey co-design, including ethical and epistemological implications of collaborative survey research. We are interested in hearing about small scale community-based research projects, but equally about larger scale regional, national and international examples as well.