Employment Consumers may be employed through a formal contract for their lived experience expertise to actively contribute to research, healthcare improvement or policy development. Some of examples of these roles may include:
Consumer Partnerships Consumer partnership in health and medical research is an approach in which researchers and/or healthcare providers and consumer organisations actively and meaningfully work together to design and conduct research or healthcare improvement projects. Consumer partnerships usually refer to a broad collaboration between researchers and consumer organisations or groups and may involve one or […]
Consumer Co-researcher A co-researcher approach is when people with lived experience actively collaborate as an equal member of the research team and are embedded in project processes alongside academic researchers. Using a co-researcher approach, consumers may undertake specific training to build their capacity to engage and conduct research activities. Consumer roles as a ‘co-researcher’ could […]