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Only north west citizens’ jury provider on COI framework |
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Manchester-based research, consultation and communications agency, Vision Twentyone, have won a place on the Central Office of Information’s (COI) Market Research Framework for providing citizens’ juries. Places on the framework are very difficult to achieve and Vision Twentyone are the only North West company to gain a place for providing citizens’ juries. They are only one of five agencies nationwide offering this specialist deliberative research method.
Nick Carley, Vision Twentyone’s Managing Director, said: “Citizens’ juries involve bringing together around 12 to 30 people over a number of days to discuss and deliberate over a particular issue. The whole process is facilitated and ‘witnesses’ are called to present their views, then the participants are assisted in reaching their recommendations and producing a report.”
Nick continued: “Citizens’ juries are relatively new to the UK, the first being conducted in the mid 1980s and we have pioneered the method since 2000, helping to popularise the approach and making it a more common part of the research toolkit.
“We’ve run citizens’ juries about tackling anti-social behaviour in Liverpool; looking at political structures in Burnley; examining youth provision in Camden; and involving drug users in improving treatment services, which also won an Institute for Public Policy Research/The Guardian Public Involvement Award back in 2001.
“Our most prominent client was the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). When we launched their Citizens’ Council in 2001 we had over 9,000 enquiries about being one of the 30 participants!” |
