The role and purpose of Lived Experience Advisory Panels

This seminar will introduce participants to the important contribution Lived Experience Advisory Panels can make to research and how the decision to include a panel is grounded in a commitment to co-design and the increased expectation that experts by experience are involved in care economy research.

Chaired by Associate Professor Piers Gooding, see event details:

• Date: Tuesday 10 September
• Time: 12pm to 1:00pm
• Location: Online, via Zoom (link provided after registration)

We will discuss emerging practices including how to engage and work with a diversity of perspectives and address issues of power sharing in research.

Speakers:

• Professor Lisa Brophy is the current Discipline Lead in Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on people experiencing mental illness and psychosocial disability and their recovery, social inclusion and human rights and Lisa has been involved in local and international collaborations regarding mental health law and its implications for policy, law reform and direct practice

• Associate Professor Chris Maylea is a social worker, lawyer, and Associate Professor of Law at La Trobe University. He has practice experience in mental health services as a social worker and manager, provides advice to government and policy reform bodies and has extensive experience before the Victorian Mental Health Tribunal as a legal representative. He has conducted research into health and advocacy services, gender-based violence in mental health inpatient units, child protection, elder abuse, and doctrinal and human rights analyses and has served as Chair and Deputy Chair of the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC).

• Tessa-May Zirnsak is a consumer researcher and research fellow with substantial experience involving people with lived experience in research. Tessa has experience working as a lived experience advisor and coordinating groups of lived experience experts as a part of large research projects. Earlier this year, she launched the Equally Well Taking Charge of Your Care health resource with the lived experience team, who determined that the work met their understanding of co-design.