Peer Exchange Program
Peer Exchange program
Lead – CI Hamilton
The Peer Exchange Program is a tailored mentor opportunity for Lived-Experience researchers and those engaged in carer/family/kinship research to be matched with an experienced researcher from a different discipline, or who is focused on mental health research within a different setting to their own. The mentor program runs for 6-12 months and is based on peers identifying their career development needs and goals with the support of the program lead CI Hamilton. The researcher will be provided with a peer match with monthly meetings, group reflections and the opportunity to shadow researchers for learning and exposure. Matching can be from within the Lived-Experience Research Collective where there is opportunity to match those just embarking on their research career with others who are more experienced. Matching is also possible with investigators in the ALIVE National Centre, with access to the same blended model of sponsorship and shadowing. The program will aim to further strengthen and enable existing Lived-Experience research teams by redressing the traditional academic power gradient. This program provides support for Lived-Experience mental health researchers who are not engaged in research higher-degree pathways in university settings.
Further Program information to come
Further Program information to come
— ALIVE Forum
The forum offers a place for dialogue and exchange for lived-experience researchers engaged in mental health research.
Membership includes lived-experience researchers in community organisations or governments working on mental health research projects and people with lived-experience who may partner with researchers for co-design or co-production research so that they connect with others.
It’s a supportive forum to share experiences, grow networks, and to talk about skills and training needs that people might benefit from, including building lived-expertise as an evidence base.
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