“…Engaged research (which draws from and builds on traditions of science outreach, co-production, participatory research, deliberative research and citizen science [Bergold and Thomas, 2012;Borg et al, 2012;Collins et al, 2020;Vaughn and Jacquez, 2020;Willis et al, 2021] ) generally relies on in-person interactions to build social relationships and establish trust, alongside a plethora of embodied facilitation techniques and the use of physical resources including flipcharts, marker pens, post-it notes, maps, art materials and even toys [Brouwer et al, 2019;Kara, 2015;Willis et al, 2021]. Parallel to this there is a growing consensus across interdisciplinary and participatory research that collaboration is best fostered via mutual respect, shared problem solving and regular sociability, traditionally assumed to be best achieved via in-person interactions [Aicardi, 2014;Fitzgerald et al, 2019;Freeth and Caniglia, 2020].…”