Call for Papers

Invitation to contribute to a special issue of Brain Impairment on Collaboration, co-production, & co-design: Moving ahead in Brain impairment 

Brain Impairment is planning to host a special issue of the journal on the topic of collaboration, co-production, and co-design with people who have a brain impairment. The editorial team will consist of Dr Melissa (Liss) Brunner and A/Prof Michelle Bellon and the aim is to publish all articles in this special issue by mid-2025.  

The goal will be to capture and represent ‘the state of the art’ in terms of collaboration, co-production, and co-design approaches in brain impairment research studies. We hope that the articles showcase the successes and challenges of these approaches in research design and implementation. We anticipate that this is an opportunity to highlight the importance of authenticity in research outcomes that can be produced using these approaches, particularly with inclusion of people with brain impairment from the inception of research ideas and throughout the design and implementation stages of studies. We hope to be able to include a range of publications representative of involvement of people across different brain impairment aetiologies, for example, brain injury, stroke, dementia. We plan to publish a discussion paper reflecting on the advancements reflected in the suite of studies and consider future directions for research.  

We would be delighted if you would consider contributing to the special issue. The proposed time frames are: 

The editorial team will adopt the standard procedures for securing peer reviews as standard for Brain Impairment (see: https://www.publish.csiro.au/ib/forauthors).