Kerri Jackson
Central Queensland University
Thesis Title
A sense of kinship: peer work in suicide intervention services
Supervisor
Adjunct Associate Professor Anthony Welch
Research Questions
What is the nature of peer support in suicide intervention services?
Whose research influences you?
I’m influenced by Dr Gabor Mate’ and his bio-psycho-social model of understanding human behaviour; by John Cutcliffe and Heidi Hjelmeland, both internationally renowned researchers in suicide prevention who advocate for and produce lived-experience research. In Australia, Mathew Large, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, who critiques the value of risk assessments and much more…
Are you a lived-experience researcher?
Yes
If so, how does lived or consumer experience shape your research?
Mainly consumer experience with family members with mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
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