Lived experience researchers draw on their own experiences, such as disability and mental illness, as assets in the research process. This approach to research may be one way to challenge traditional dichotomies between the ‘researcher’ and the ‘research subject’. Here, Kate Davies, Lauren Hislop and Shaylie Pryer talk about the value of lived experience research and what it has meant for them to work together using autoethnography as a method for reclaiming power over their own stories. They explore the importance of care of self and each other in this type of highly personal research. They celebrate the joy and safety they’ve experienced through an authentically collaborative research process.
