Royce is the foundation of your inequalities transformation programme. Inequalities are complex and can leave people wondering how to begin understanding the inequalities happening in their organisation. We can help your organisation better understand the inequalities being experienced by people using your services across all protected characteristics. Royce is developed to do just that.
Royce is coproduction-led so the insights it delivers into inequalities is grounded in the experiences of the people using your service. Royce seeks an understanding of inequalities across all protected characteristics - so all the people using your service can participate. The methodology is delivered over four stages:
Engagement Stage: to build rapport with the people using your services, begin to engage them on inequalites, & invite them to participate in, & contribute to, the project.
Coproduction Stage: to explore the experiences that people using your service have had by doing three activities focused on inequalities that together will give us the breadth of the challenges experienced by the people using your service.
Questionnaire Stage: to confirm what inequalities are happening in your service by looking at the numbers say about who is experiencing which challenges to what extent.
Workshop Stage: to explain what causes and perpetuates the inequalities identified in your service by excavating the story mechanics of challenges exprience by people & identifying the forces driving those stories.
From the delivery of the four stages and the analysis in-between the following set of core findings will be delivered.
Inequalities Code Book: a code is a unit of meaning. This code book will provide you will all the meanings connected to inequalities from the narratives of the people participating in the coproduction.
Inequalities: all challenges experienced by one group to a greater extent than other groups.
Difficult Experiences: all challenges experienced equally by all groups.
Stories: the complete list of all the complaints expressed by service users during coproduction stripped of detail and stated in the most general way, for example, my needs are not understood.
Factors: the underlying things that cause and perpetuate the difficulties expressed by service users during coproduction.
Factor Structuring: the structure of the influence of factors in each of the stories.
The Royce Methodology also comes with a system of recommendations for actions your organisation can take as the next step on from understanding the inequalities experienced in your organisation to tackling those inequalities.
The Royce Methodology is the foundation of your inequalities transformation programme.