Research program lead Professor Amanda Wheeler and Professor Kelsey Hegarty are co-leads for the co-designed Roadmap for Mental Health Research Translation. Postdoctoral research fellow Dr Caroline Robertson is leading the development of an impact evaluation framework for the roadmap and National Centre initiatives. This program includes ongoing ecosystem mapping using Wicked Labs, and annual community activities such as a policy scan, an national lived-experience priorities survey, and prioritisation for the National Roadmap for Mental Health Research Translation.
Our most recent mental health care at-scale research project is the Implementation Co-Evaluation with our partner, Neami National. We conducted this co-evaluation with an embedded lived-experience research model of the Head to Health sites and Urgent Mental Health Care Centre to determine implementation strategies and pathways for embedding these models within the mental health care ecosystem.
Click here to view the database of priorities shared by people with lived-experience for the ALIVE National co-partnered annual lived-experience priorities surveys.
Click here to view the diagram that describes what happens across the four seasons in the Centre.
The Combined 2022-2024 Pocket Map presents the priority topics for mental health research translation. This edition incorporates the review of progress in the roadmap at the ALIVE National Annual Symposia.
The 2024 Pocket Map presents the connection between the roadmap and the pathways of families within. This Edition incorporates the commonly shared priorities from the 2023 survey and the review of progress in the roadmap at the ALIVE National Annual Symposium 2024.
The Annual Lived-Experience Priorities Survey 2022 analysis has confirmed the priorities that needed to be updated and where consensus remained. This has informed the renewal of wording alongside the discussions at our Annual Symposium and review of progress for the Pocket Map 2023 Edition.
Eighty-eight people with lived-experience of mental ill-health (including carers, family/kinship group members and people who identify as having both experiences) completed emotion mapping as part of the Centre’s experience co-design approach.
Our Phase 3 Consensus Statement brings together voices of young people living with mental ill-health, and carers, family or kinship group members supporting people aged 16-25 years old, and people who have both experiences, to share priorities and implementation actions. We thank the Australian National University for partnering on this study.
Our Phase 2 Consensus Statement brings voices of parents living with mental ill-health, partners and young adults (16+), and family members together to share priorities and action areas. We thank the Prato International Research Collaborative for partnering on this survey.
Our Phase 1 Consensus Statement was co-designed with 115 people with lived-experience of mental ill-health and carer/family and kinship group members over 2022. These actions will inform further translation goals and targets for our national roadmap.
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