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CO-DESIGN: Importance of research co-design with people with lived experience and examples from sleep health research

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Track 3
Friday, October 10, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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Partnership with people with lived experience is essential across all stages of research to ensure research is addressing the right questions and achieving the best possible outcomes. Sleep disorders have a significant impact on the quality of life for millions of people, but the perspectives of people with lived experience of sleep disorders are not well understood. This symposium will discuss the importance of research co-design and will explore three relevant research studies with a strong co-design element. The speakers will provide practical advice on how to successfully develop meaningful partnerships with people with lived experience and discuss how co-design has improved their research. This symposium is supported by the Sleep Health Foundation Lived Experience Advisory Partners.


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A/prof Moira Junge
Ceo
Sleep Health Foundation

Introduction

11:00 AM - 11:05 AM

Biography

Gillian Harvey

Importance of research co-design with people with lived experience

11:05 AM - 11:25 AM

Biography

Assoc Prof Grace Vincent
Associate Professor
CQ University

Designing with, not for – creating sleep, nutrition and physical activity resources that work for shift workers

11:25 AM - 11:40 AM

Biography

Dr Aaron Schokman
Research Fellow
University of Sydney

Co-design in narcolepsy research projects

11:40 AM - 11:55 AM

Biography

Prof Yaqoot Fatima
Professor of Sleep Health
University of the Sunshine Coast

Co-design in the Let’s Yarn About Sleep project

11:55 AM - 12:10 PM

Biography

Jenny Haycock
Flinders University

Chair

Biography

Dr Charlotte Gupta
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Appleton Institute

Chair

Biography

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