Our Research
Below you will find some of our research with links to accessible summaries and full-length academic texts.
Effective peer employment with multidisciplinary organisational model for best practice
This paper discusses a best practice model for the effective employment of Lived Experience workers
‘You Don’t Know What you Don’t Know.’ The essential role of management exposure, understanding and commitment in peer workforce development
Effective peer employment with multidisciplinary organisational model for best practice
This study aimed to explore management understanding and attitudes towards Lived Experience workforce. The paper also aimed to explore workplace culture considerations that impact on Lived Experience roles and how management is contributing to it.
Take a gamble for high rewards? Management perspectives on the value of mental health beer workers.
This study aimed to better understand the views of management on Lived Experience work and it’s value.
How much ‘Lived Experience’ is enough? Understanding mental health Lived Experience work from a management perspective.
This research aimed to explore management understanding of the lived experience required for designated lived experience or peer roles within mental health.
A role for Lived Experience mental health leadership in the age of Covid-19
This paper discusses the role for lived experience mental health leadership in the age of Covid-19.
The global need for Lived Experience leadership
This study aimed to examine global research, literature and professional experience to identify common challenges and experiences of the Lived Experience workforce, as well as future needs.
Skin in the Game: The professionalisation of Lived Experience roles in mental health.
This study aimed to explore the arguments for and against professionalization are explored to understand the risks and benefits for the Lived Experience workforce.
The stigma of identifying as having a Lived Experience runs before me: Challenges for Lived Experience roles
This research aimed to better understand the experiences of Lived Experience workers in Australia and the challenges and the challenges they face.
Role titles and descriptions. Mental health Lived Experience workforce
An examination of example roles, specialisations, job titles and position descriptions for the Lived Experience workforce.
To disclose or not disclose? Peer workers impact on a culture of safe disclosure for mental health professionals with Lived Experience.
This paper explores the impact of the Lived Experience workforce on the disclosure of lived experience by mental health professionals to their colleagues in their workplace and strategies that encourage disclosure.
Lived Experience practitioners and the medical model: World’s colliding?
This paper explores the perspectives of individuals working in lived experience roles to understand their experiences in these roles.
Recovery as a Lived Experience discipline: A grounded theory study.
This paper explores the potential of Lived Experience workers in contributing to the implementations of recovery based service delivery within the Australian mental health sector.
Developing inclusive and healthy organizations by employing designated lived-experience roles: Learning from human resource management innovation in the mental health sector.
This paper explores the benefits that employing designated-lived experience roles can bring to colleagues and organisations in addition to service users.
Employing people who have “been there, experienced that” to inform innovative HRM responses to workforce mental health issues: practice insights from industry
This paper explores the innovative HR practice of employing Mental Health Advocate roles at Energy Queensland.