‘Lived Experience in Research’ event series.

The Collaborative Centre is pleased to be partnering with the Mental Health PhD program at the University of Melbourne to deliver a three-part ‘Lived Experience in Research’ event series. This series has been designed to champion lived experience-led research and expertise, and foster connections between graduate researchers from the Program, lived experience researchers and the Collaborative Centre. 
 

The second event of the series was held on Monday 14th July, with graduate researchers engaging in an important session on “Rethinking Expertise: Lived Experience as Co-Researchers, not Participants”. 
 

A very big thank you to the Consumer Academics from the Centre for Mental Health Nursing at the University – Nina Joffe-Kohn, Leanna Azoury and Shibs Sharpe – for providing their time and expertise for this session, and for leading the graduate researchers through a thought-provoking reflective exercise on their current PhD projects.
 

The Mental Health PhD Program at the University of Melbourne brings together graduate researchers exploring mental health from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology, community mental health, and many more. The goal of the Program is to provide all graduate researchers undertaking a PhD relating to mental health with a platform to connect, share and discover so that they can become fully rounded researchers who can approach the field of mental health from a multi-disciplinary perspective. More information on the program can be found here.