To meet their responsibilities to different communities, researchers have incorporated methodologies such as: participatory action research, in which members of the community affected by the research actively participate in different parts of the project public patient involvement, in which non-academic people work as employees or volunteers in organisations’ high-level work community-based participatory research, which aims to equitably involve community members and others in research projects. Each of these are slightly different, and are used variously in different disciplines, but their increasing presence affirms that involving communities in research is crucial for good research outcomes. However, we have found approaches putting community at the centre of research beyond disciplinary siloes have not yet been documented in a comprehensive way. Our book builds on previous research by bringing together various community-led approaches, including from education and social work, health and medicine, and archaeology.