LIVED EXPERIENCE VOICES IN RESEARCH

VMIAC embraces, enables, empowers, & emboldens the lived experience community

OUR QUESTIONS, OUR VOICES, OUR WAY

Through our Lived Experience Voices in Research program, VMIAC aims to provide engagement opportunities for people with lived experience to reflect on the evidence base for change in mental health service design and delivery.

We aim to support consumers to identify and highlight gaps in evidence and critical issues for further research.

We will:

Consult people with consumer lived experience at least once a year to identify priority and emerging research topics,
Use consumer recommendations to influence research agendas and set priorities in mental health research.
Work to increase consumer engagement, involvement, and leadership in developing research principles and setting research agendas.
Work to increase consumer engagement, involvement, and leadership in developing research principles and setting research agendas.

HAVE YOUR SAY

If you are a VMIAC member or other person with lived experience, you will soon be able to register your interest in joining a 2023-24 Lived Experience Voices in Research Program forum.

We will promote forums through the VMIAC newsletter and our networks

To sign up to VMIAC’s newsletter…

HOW WE WORK

Across all VMIAC research programs and actions, we work by:

Engaging with consumers, stakeholders, and the community
Prioritising lived experience leadership
Building lived experience research capacity
Encouraging innovation
Sharing knowledge from lived experience perspectives

Read more in VMIAC’s Lived Experience-Led Research Strategy

Seeking VMIAC support or endorsement of your research?

Go to Research Support & Promotion to learn more or submit a request

Are you

a person with lived experience seeking support for a research proposal?
a PhD student, researcher, or organisation seeking support, partnership, or endorsement for a project or proposal?
wanting to promote participation in your research project to people with lived experience?
wanting to share your lived experience-led research findings with VMIAC members and other people with lived experience?

We welcome discussion about consumer principles, engaging consumers in research, and VMIAC support, partnership, and endorsement.

Read more in VMIAC’s Lived Experience-Led Research Strategy

To contact the VMIAC Research team research@vmiac.org.au