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Lived experience

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Living experience
Description

Lived experience refers to a representation of the experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain from these experiences and choices. [Wikipedia]

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Policymaking
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Lived experience
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Report

The Blak Women’s Healing Project

Rowena Price, Amy Quayle, Laura Jane Singh, Christopher Sonn

The project set out to understand and support Aboriginal women living in Melbourne’s west whose families had negative encounters with child protection services. The findings demonstrate that cultural healing and projects like the Blak Women’s Healing project are central to better understanding and supporting the healing and resilience of Aboriginal communities.
Video

Evidence to action: exploring knowledge mobilisation


This video recording is of an event exploring how research led by and with people with disability can be mobilised to influence real change in policy and practice. Key themes include how research leads to impact, best practice in sharing research accessibly and meaningfully, and collaboration between researchers, policymakers, advocates and service providers.
Guide

Safe research partnership with people with lived and living experience


A checklist and guide to use when research is being conducted with people who have lived or living experience of mental illness or ill health. The resources have been designed to support safe and empowering lived experience partnerships in research.
Report

Valuing and embedding lived and living experience at The Wyatt Trust


This report details the work of a philanthropic organisation to prioritise and embed the voices of lived and living experience in its work to create a future in which all South Australians are free of poverty. The report asserts that embedding lived and living experience must, at the very least, be a consideration for service...
Journal article

Adapting experience‐based co‐design to disability research

Nora Shields, Margaret Wallen, Finn O'Keefe, Miriam Joy Yates, Holly Skilbeck, Rachel Toovey
This article looked at adapting experience‐based co‐design (EBCD) through co‐production by involving people with lived experience of disability as co‐researchers to work on a community cycling program (CycLink). This paper reports the co‐produced protocol and reflects on co‐researchers' contributions.