Let’s Talk Co-Production

The Care Economy Research Institute (CERI) invites you to join us for the third seminar in our series exploring meaningful lived experience (LE) involvement in research and practice.

Collaborating with lived experience experts can enrich research and lead to more meaningful outcomes—but it’s not without its challenges. This interactive panel brings together researchers across the Care Economy Research Institute share candid reflections on common issues that arise in co-produced research, from navigating power dynamics to managing expectations and communication.

The aim of this panel is to support attendees to develop their skills and confidence in managing common areas of tension, so they are empowered to continue meaningful and productive lived experience partnerships.

QUESTIONS:

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions to the panel in advance, making this a valuable space for open discussion, shared learning, and practical problem-solving.

There will also be time for questions following the panel discussion, but we’d love to hear from you beforehand.

Please email T.Zirnsak@latrobe.edu.au with your questions.

TITLE: Let’s Talk Co-Production: A Panel on Common Pitfalls and Practical Solutions

DATE: Friday 1 August

TIME: 12pm - 1pm

VENUE: ONLINE via Zoom

REGISTRATION REQUIRED HERE

CHAIR:

• Dr Tessa Zirnsak

Tessa is a consumer researcher and Research Fellow with substantial experience involving people with lived experience in research. Tessa has experience working as a lived experience advisor and coordinating groups of lived experience experts as a part of large research projects.

PANEL SPEAKERS:

• Mary O’Hagan

Mary is the inaugural Director of Lived Experience at Wellways. She is a highly accomplished speaker, consultant, and writer, with over 30 years of transformative leadership in the lived experience field, making an impact globally, and now also at Wellways.

• Professor Graham Brown

Graham is a Professor at ARCSHS, and has a strong interest in building evidence for effective community led responses, the meaningful involvement and leadership of lived and living experience in research, policy and practice. He has built long-term relationships and collaborations with community organisations led by people living with HIV, people living with viral hepatitis, people who use drugs, sex workers, and LGBTIQ+ communities, and brings his own experience of living with HIV to his collaborative research.

• Dr Dana Wong

Dana is an Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist. She leads the eNACT Research Group, which focuses on innovative neuropsychological rehabilitation techniques to improve the lives of brain injury survivors, and enhancing clinical implementation of and clinician competence in these evidence-based interventions.

• Dr Balawyn Jones

Balawyn is a socio-legal scholar specialising in family and domestic violence and the implementation of women's rights at the intersection of gender, religion, and law. Her current research practice focuses on the help-seeking behavior of victims from culturally and linguistically diverse communities via state and non-state avenues, with an emphasis on lived experience and victim agency.

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