Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Unpacking Disruptive Methodologies: What Do We Know About Lived Experience-Led Knowledge and Scholarship? - Maree Higgins and Caroline Lenette

Part I: Theoretical Grounding and Underpinning Values

2. Examining for the Purpose of Knowing: Ngaabigi Winhangagigu - Uncle Stan Grant (Senior), Sue Green, Deb Evans, Donna Murray, Letitia Harris and Harry Lambshead

3. Toward a Scholarship of Critical Lived Experience Engagement: Big Feelings, Big Stories, Big Learning - Rebecca Moran

Part II: Scrutinising Lived Experience Research Processes Through Leadership and Collaboration

4. Lived Experience Perspectives on a Co-Design Process: The ‘Men Under the Radar’ Suicide Prevention Project - Stephen Lake, Anonymous Lived Experience Advisors, Campbell Clerke, William Crompton, Norman Stevens, Ivan Ma, John O'Loughlin, Peter Sutton and Matt Whitten

5. Co-Researching With Persons With Disabilities: Reflections and Lessons Learned - Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo, Husna Yuni Wulansari, Irmansyah Songgoua, Elias Katapi, Zainab and Yassin Ali Hadu

Part III: Decolonising Lived Experience Research

6.Ethical and Decolonial Considerations of Co-research in Refugee Studies: What Are We Missing? - Atem Dau Atem and Maree Higgins

7. Combating Colonially Pathologised Universalisation Through Autoethnography: A Transwoman’s Indo-Australian Lived Experience - Estelle Keerthana Ramaswamy

8. Responding Collaboratively to COVID-19 and Our Health Needs Across Pacific Communities: Core Pacific Collective - Jioji Ravulo, Seini Afeaki, Malaemie Fruean, Donina Va’a and Maherau Arona

9. The Potential of Lived Experience-Led Knowledge to Dismantle the Academy - Caroline Lenette and Maree Higgins

About the Author

Maree Higgins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. She is a leading Social Work scholar, with expertise in collaborative and ethical research approaches.

Caroline Lenette is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. She is Deputy Director of the Big Anxiety Research Centre and a leading scholar in participatory research.