Co-design living labs
A Network of the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation
People with lived experience of mental ill-health and ongoing distress co-create research, and policy and practice improvements in mental health care and translation research.
What are living labs?
Living labs are just that--they are places of the everyday and live collaboration, where we put people at the heart of science and research. Living labs bring people with technological, industry, policy and research skills together with people who have lived-experience of mental ill-health and/or bring carer, family and kinship group experiences. We operate an end to end research design to translation model that was established and has evolved since 2017.
Working together, co-design living labs offer the potential for private-public partnerships to co-create new technologies, solutions and co-design research priorities, projects and co-research models.
Get involved!
If you are interested in being involved in the co-design living labs network and you've been in a mental health research related project at any of the ALIVE National Centre university partners, please get in touch with us to find out more on the next steps.
You can read about the journey for the co-design living labs establishment and its evolution to embed the philosophy of practice, Togetherness by Design.
Contact us at any time to register your interest in taking part in a living lab.
Contact us
The Co-Design Living Labs are managed by researchers from The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation and co-leads from the Co-Design Network.
To find out more or to register your interest, please contact:
Ms Roxanne Kritharidis, Living Labs Coordinator
T: 1800 721 513
E: alive-codesign@unimelb.edu.au
News
Video series on Diversity and Inclusion Within Co-Design
See the most recent video on Trust and Relationships with the co-design of a board game to build relationships for co-designing together.
Co-Design Living Labs model now published
Our Co-Design Living Labs model has now been published in the academic journal Frontiers in Digital Public Health! Read more about the paper.
Need help?
If you live in Australia there are a number of support resources available.
| Name | Contact number |
|---|---|
| Your GP/family doctor | |
| Beyondblue | 1300 22 4636 |
| National sexual assault, domestic violence counselling service | 1800 RESPECT/ 1800 737 732 |
| Drug & Alcohol Counselling & Info | 1800 888 236 |
| Gambling Helpline | 1800 858 858 |
| Lifeline | 13 11 14 |
| Relationships Australia | 1300 364 277 |
| SANE Helpline | 1800 187 263 |
| Mensline Australia | 1300 789 978 |
| Child Abuse Prevention Service (CAPS) | 1800 688 009 |
| Suicide Line (Victoria) | 1300 651 251 |
| Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service (Victoria) | 1800 015 188 |