Carers/Family/Kinship Group Members

Our 2025 ALIVE Lived Experience research priority-setting replenishment study focuses on the views of carer, family or kinship group members, and gives the opportunity for anyone supporting someone with mental ill-health to take part. At this time we are focusing on priorities for carers, family and kinship group members who do not also identify as someone with personal experience of mental ill-health. We will conduct further priority-setting for people who have both experiences at a later date.

To help us generate and prioritise mental health research topics, you can take part in emotion mapping. You will have a private online workspace called a Mural board, where you can use virtual post-it notes to reflect on the importance of topics and think about how they should be organised. Click here to read the full information sheet for the emotion mapping. If you would like to take part in the emotion mapping, please email alive-hub@unimelb.edu.au.

The ALIVE National Centre also invites you to co-design actions for the Consensus Statements of what matters for carers, family and kinship group members. If you are a carer, family or kinship group member supporting someone with lived-experience of mental ill-health, we’d love to talk. Register your interest at https://unimelb.edu.au/kb9p or email alive-codesign@unimelb.edu.au.

The ethical aspects of the emotion mapping project have been approved by the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee (Protocol H/2024/0495) and the Public Co-Design project has been approved by the University of Melbourne Human Ethics Approval 31095. The ALIVE National Centre is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Special Initiative in Mental Health GNT2002047 and the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Mental Health Research Grant GNT2036872.