Established in 2017, our Co-Design Living Labs program is set to scale across the ALIVE National Centre’s university partners to embed co-design in mental health research, service design, and implementation and translation. We see this as a critical mechanism for transforming mental health care and the ecosystem.
The Network brings people with lived-experience of mental ill-health, ongoing distress, trauma and people who care as unpaid carers, family and/or kinship group members together with researchers, industry and other agencies (as appropriate) for co-design. This includes activities that help to set out research priorities for grants or other related activities (priority setting), co-creating new models of care, co-designing health interventions for implementation, co-developing materials for research, development of digital products, technologies and co-design for service improvement and health systems transformation. Our co-researcher approach embeds people with lived-experience within research activities and projects for Integrated Lived-Experience Applied Research Nationally.
Co-design is also undertaken with health care professionals and other organisations as needed across all health and community settings.
ALIVE Next Generation Researcher Network Application Form Click here
For University based research higher degree students, early/mid-career mental health researchers
ALIVE Lived Experience Research Collective Application Form Click here
For University and community based lived-experience or carer-focused mental health researchers at all career stages
ALIVE Collective Application Form Click here
For any individuals or organisations with a general interest in supporting the special initiative in mental health
ALIVE Implementation and Translation Network (ITN) Application Form Click here
For sector, service delivery organisations in mental health serving people across the life course and priority populations
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