The ALIVE Noticeboard Guidelines

WHAT IS THE NOTICEBOARD?

The noticeboard is the area on our digital translation platform that displays Nationally focused material for news sharing, work in progress, links for upcoming events, papers recently published from mental health and related research projects or reports and other useful information.

The noticeboard is a source for information sharing, building community and advancing research translation activities. It supports our by invitation writer-in-residence program too.

WHERE CAN I FIND THE NOTICEBOARD?

There are three noticeboards on the translation platform. Scroll down on the ALIVE National Centre landing page here www.alivenetwork.com.au for the general noticeboard information.

There is also a more bespoke noticeboard on the Next Generation Researcher Network and the Lived-Experience Research Collective pages. You can choose to share your noticeboard on the main page or on a specific network only – depending on the content of what is being produced.

WORD LIMITS
Maximum 15 words for the main title.
Maximum 20 words for the sub-heading title.
There is no word limits on the main article page. We encourage short or long form pieces. These can be in the form of thought pieces about mental health systems translation, reflections on recent mental health publications, syntheses of reports relevant to mental health care delivery and change. You may submit a review of a mental health related book (fiction or non-fiction), a blog series or podcast.

IMAGES AND CREATIVE WORKS

Images, PDFs, and Videos can also be embedded on the noticeboard piece to accompany a written review. Or you may choose to display your piece as a graphic that is fine. The image should be in JPEG or PNG format ideally in 300dpi and must be under 5mb in size.

HOW DO I CONTRIBUTE
Please share materials with the ALIVE HUB team anytime by emailing ctjung@unimelb.edu.au

The HUB team will then be in touch to send you the template to be filled for the noticeboard post.

— 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.

The ALIVE Lived-Experience Research Collective Forum is a supportive, safe and anonymous space.

We ask you to read the following before posting to the forum:

Getting started

Share ideas, talk about skills that work for lived-experience researchers and participate in research focused conversations within posts and threads.

Our principles for participation

Here are our principles for participation for the ALIVE Lived-Experience Research Collective Forum. This space is created for everyone to feel welcome and safe in their interactions. If you notice that the principles of participation are not being put into practice, please get in touch with us.

Forum FAQs

Here are the principles of participation for the ALIVE Lived-Experience Research Collective – these have been co-created by and for mental health researchers with lived-experience to support safety in online dialogue, cooperative practices and shared agreements. Please get in touch with us at info@alivenetwork.com.au for more information or if see any concerning language or practices you need to discuss.