I’m a big Masterchef fan. I love food, I love stories, I love Melissa Leong’s choice in BIG earrings – what isn’t there to love?! So it was with some trepidation that I approached the last 15 minutes of tonight’s episode. Channel 10 had been promoting an emotional farewell all weekend. It was apparent that … Read more
I’m a qualitative researcher by background and doing one-on-one interviews is my research happy place. I’m currently knee-deep in interviews across a couple of projects, and I’ve been reflecting on how my lived experience as a mental health consumer helps make me a better interviewer, and create a better interview experience for participants. Many consumers … Read more
When I was at university, I was sexually assaulted. I didn’t report it. I didn’t report it for a whole number of reasons. I was out of my comfort zone – overseas and leaving for home in the morning. I had been drunk. I was dressed in a short skirt. I had kissed him. It … Read more
Telling stories is well-established as a powerful marketing and communications tool. But I think there is something risky about narrativising our trauma.
Advocacy is a path that can be full of victories and joy. But ‘caring’ can also be exhausting.
Reflections from the Australasian Evaluation Society conference, where I got nerdily excited about the potential for evaluation to do more to empower its beneficiaries, including people with mental ill-health
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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, and pay my respects to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. Colonisation and dispossession have an ongoing impact on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples and these lands.
