Research Partners with Lived Experience

Associate Professor Andrew Stranieri is a senior lecturer in Information Technology at Federation University Australia. His research in digital health has includes models for integrating data analytics, intelligent decision support, and human expertise, telehealth and remote patient monitoring. His work in remote sensing of vital signs has translated into practice through a spin-out company. He has been awarded many research grants and is the author of over 200 peer reviewed articles and three books. Dr. Grant Meredith graduated from Federation University and is a lecturer of Information Technology. He leads the Technologies for Empowering People for Participation in Society (TEPPS) programme, which focuses on creating “assertive technologies”. Grant was named Federation University’s Alumnus of the Year for 2015 and has been awarded numerous competitive philanthropic grants. Grant has focused on assisting people who stutter to gain speaking and social confidence through technologies. He is a person who stutters and has presented internationally on his research. Dr. Selena (Sally) Firmin graduated from Monash University Australia. She is an Information Technology lecturer at Federation University Australia. Sally has over 25 peer-reviewed publications and has delivered several oral presentations, is a reviewer for multiple journals and conferences, and is involved with the supervision of many HDR students. Sally won a best paper award for her work on developing lifelong learners through e-communication. Sally has several grants, her most recent in collaboration with partner academics looking at fluid management in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Sally is a CKD patient currently on hemodialysis.

• 1 Paradigm shift: The lived experience of a researcher with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.- 2 Who punched me in the back? Becoming a CKD researcher.- 3 Zebras have spots.- 4 To be, or not to be, that is the question: Stuttering into Academia.- 5 Living with Family Violence and The Great Escape.- 6 My journey: from patient to researcher with lived experience.- 7 A Duty of Care To Improve Processes.—8 Better Health through Integrative Medicine: A Pursuit of Lived Experience.- 9 My Personal, Professional, and Academic Journey and Lived Experience with Domestic Violence.- Endometriosis.- 11 A peek into the life of an Asthmatic.- 12 You have to be courageous.- 13 Living with Anxiety and Severe Depression.- 14 Its in your head!.- 15 How Lived Experience Mediated My Gold, Ribbons, Puzzles and Morals Research Motivations: a Reflective Introspection.