Embracing Complexity: Lived Experience Engagement in CPD Scholarship
There is increasing recognition in CPD of the value the engaging people with lived expertise of health system encounters in the design and actualization of initiatives. However, scope of lived experience engagement is often limited and is rarely extended to CPD scholarship. In this presentation, through real life examples, we will explore practical approaches, processes, and practices for meaningfully engaging people with lived experience in CPD scholarship. This presentation will illustrate the possibilities and opportunities that become possible when people with lived experience have an equal seat and voice at the table.
Speakers
Holly Harris MA (she/her/hers)
Research Coordinator, Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
PhD Student, Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies, York University
Holly Harris (she/her) is a research professional specializing in lived-experience engagement, co-production, Recovery Colleges, and participatory action research. Holly leverages her lived experiences of mental health system encounters and Master’s in Critical Disability Studies to ensure that many perspectives, including lived-experience perspectives, are meaningfully engaged in health research, education, and programming. Holly is currently working as the Research Coordinator at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and is pursuing a PhD in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University.
Sophie Soklaridis PhD (she/her/hers)
Senior Scientist and Scientific Director, Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Associate Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Vice-Chair of Mental Health Equity and EDIIA, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Sophie Soklaridis is a Senior Scientist and Scientific Director at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Family & Community Medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Vice-Chair of Mental Health Equity and EDIIA at the Department of Psychiatry. She is a Scientist at Wilson Centre for Research in Education as well as the Canadian Lead and a core faculty member for the Master of Health Sciences Education in Ethiopia through the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC). Her research takes a critical sociological approach on the issues of power, identity and relationships. Her scholarly foci include patient/clients as partners in research and mental health education and the influence of power and privilege on academic medicine. She is a widely published and well-funded scientist who has received multiple awards for her research.