Victoria Palmer is Professor of Co-Design and Primary Care Mental Health. Having completed a PhD in applied ethics and trained in the arts and humanities, Victoria's 20 year research career has applied participatory design, codesign and coproduction to design and improve mental health care in primary care and community settings. She has worked with recovery, ethical theory, creative arts and narrative methods including leading randomised trials to explore lived experience and participation in changing systems of mental health care. Victoria is one of three Co-Directors in the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation for which she led the funding bid. The ALIVE Centre ($10M over five years) operates six flagship projects to transform mental health and implement community-led, holistic care approaches. She co-leads three flagships: a consumer led grant to implement an Indigenous designed and led method Bigaagarri (a Gumbaynggirr concept explaining warnings for wellbeing shared by Murawari Gumbaynggirr researcher Phillip Orcher) for Preventive Experiential Arts and Cultural Evidence models (PEACE program, funded by MRFF). A-Part of the Crowd exploring 18 to 25 year old experiences of loneliness during big life changes (Medibank Better Health Foundation) and she leads the Whose Care project to address structural inequalities in priority populations through collective strategies (funded by MRFF). In the RESTORE Centre, Victoria co-leads the scaling pathways and implementation strategies to embed trauma-violence informed care delivery in the health system with Kelsey Hegarty and has a specific focus on survivor led implementation in public mental health settings.

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