Contribution to the Evidence Base
Roses in the Ocean is committed to contributing to the emerging and rapidly growing evidence base relating to the active and meaningful integration and partnership with people with lived experience of suicide in all suicide prevention activities, and the embedding of lived experience of suicide engagement principles and best practice.
All of our activities, which are developed, designed and delivered by people with a lived experience of suicide, continuously add to the growing evidence base in Australia and internationally. Currently, existing evidence predominantly comes from scientific peer reviewed work, however, as the contribution of people with a lived experience of suicide grows, this research and evidence is becoming much richer.
Our role in research is three fold:
- we invest in external evaluation and research regarding the impact and outcomes of our own work
- we collaboratively drive the integration of lived experience of suicide into research with research institutions (LE in Research project – see below)
- we connect researchers with people with the relevant lived experience of suicide for specific research and evaluation topics. See ‘Partnerships in Research below and our LE Engagement Projects.
Read more below about:
- external evaluations of Roses in the Ocean’s workshops
- innovation papers
- research project partnerships
Partnerships in research
- Co-creating Safe Spaces: Australian National University
- Systematic Tailored Assessment for Responding to Suicidality protocol (STARS-p) for youth/parent populations: Australian Institute Suicide Research and Prevention
- ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation – Whose care is left behind?
This is an exciting new mental health research initiative that seeks to address the inequalities affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities, rural, regional and remote communities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people living with mental ill-health by creating 25 community action nodes that will foster more flexible, placed-based, culturally-led prevention, intervention and care models. Led by the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation, the five-year project will be a collaboration between seven universities and seven mental health organisations across 25 locations.
