New Writer in Residence Piece!
Michael Elwan shares on knowledge, migration, and the quiet work of translation. Please read Michael’s writer-in-residence series with awareness and care.
Read the full piece here: go.unimelb.edu.au/gg82
We are excited to invite you to the launch our a/part of the crowd website! We are proud to present our new space, designed with emerging adults navigating loneliness during life’s big changes.
📍 Meat Market stables, North Melbourne
📅 29 April 2026, 4–7pm
🎟 Free, register here go.unimelb.edu.au/7pj2
✍ NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PIECE
In this new piece, Michael Elwan shared a powerful reflections from the frontlines of mental health. Please read Michael’s writer-in-residence series with awareness and care.
Read the full piece here: go.unimelb.edu.au/47x2
We’re excited to share our latest Quick Guide from our Co-Design Living Labs Network!
📖 Explore the guide here: simplebooklet.com/qgbibb2025
👓 Explore the research article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Michael Elwan shared a powerful reflection on migration, masculinity, and the emotional weight men carry when rebuilding their lives in a new country.
go.unimelb.edu.au/4n62 Congratulations Michael for the 2025 AASW National Social Worker of the Year at the National Excellence Awards!
NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PIECE
We’re proud to share the first piece from Ailsa Rayner: “The Politics of Who Gets Paid to Speak”.
Read it now 👉 alivenetwork.com.au/the-politics...
Congratulations to our 2025 Next Generation Researcher Network Capacity Building Funding Scheme recipients: Kirsten Hillman (University of Melbourne) Melissa Opozda (Flinders University) and Caroline Walters (Monash University)!
We look forward to seeing your iprojects take shape🪴
Our latest Lost in Translation Zine is here!
In this Spring 2025 edition, you'll find highlights from our five-year impact story (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4r...), celebrating the voices, partnerships, and communities shaping the ALIVE National Centre.
alivenetwork.com.au/lost-in-tran...
NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PIECE! ✍️
This new series is written from lived experience. It includes personal reflections on illness, loss, and caregiving. Please read Michael Elwan’s “A Son After Suicide: Lessons in Silence” with awareness and care. alivenetwork.com.au/a-son-after-...
🔔 Final call to register for tomorrow’s ALIVE Virtual Café!
“From Prototype to Practice: Translating Community-Made Essentials into Wellbeing”
Hear from Benjamin Knight and Nicholas Marchesi OAM as they discuss the Goods. Project.
Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/r5qp
NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE SERIES STARTING NOW! ✍️
This new series is written from lived experience. It includes personal reflections on illness, loss, and caregiving. Please read Michael Elwan’s new series with awareness and care.
alivenetwork.com.au/the-boy-who-...
Yesterday, our Co-Director Professor Michelle Banfield joined ABC Radio Canberra’s Sunday Brunch to talk about how Safe Havens are being used and the difference they can make in people’s lives.
You can listen to Michelle’s full interview from minute 36:07 to 47:54: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Connecting with community means listening, partnering, and working together for change. Whose Care…? Our Care! is about connection within and across communities, services, and ensuring that lived-experience drives the formation of strong ecosystems.
#WorldMentalHealthDay #ConnectWithYourCommunity
In this World Mental Health Month, we want to highlight the A-Part of the Crowd, responding to the growing issue of loneliness among young people (aged 18-25) during life transitions.
alivenetwork.com.au/community-cr....
Together, we can turn stories of loneliness into pathways for connection.
This year’s theme from one of our partners at Mental Health Australia is “Connect with your community.” Connecting with the people and places where we feel safe, seen, and heard helps us feel supported.
How can #communitymade essentials improve #wellbeing? 🌱
Join Benjamin Knight and Nicholas Marchesi on Thursday 30th October 1pm AEDT for their ALIVE virtual cafe talk: From Prototype to Practice: Translating Community-Made Essentials into Wellbeing
Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/r5qp
There are still two opportunities open for Carer, Family and Kinship group members supporting someone with lived-experience of mental ill-health:
1️⃣ Emotion Mapping - 30-45 min activity. Email alive-hub@unimelb.edu.au.
2️⃣ Public Co-Design Sessions -Register here go.unimelb.edu.au/kb9p
New paper published!
This paper presents the co-design processes for the conceptual design of a model of care for the Southern Melbourne Children’s Health and Wellbeing Local.
Read the full paper here: go.unimelb.edu.au/8z3p
Are you a #Carer, #Family or #Kinship group member supporting someone with #livedexperience of mental ill-health?
Join public #codesign sessions to co-create actions for #change! Click here to register: go.unimelb.edu.au/kb9p
Coming up next Thursday 25th September 2025 at 6pm – 7pm (AEST), Dr Veenu Gupta and Tanya Mackay will be speaking on the topic The SUNRISE Mental Health Study: Searching, Unpacking and Naming Research Into Subjective Experiences Research!
Register here to join the conversation go.unimelb.edu.au/zd3p
We write today with heavy hearts as we collectively process the actions taken by some over the weekend in Australia. In this moment, we turn to the core values of the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation.
From the Co-Directors for our Communities
Are you a #Carer, #Family or #Kinship group member of someone with mental ill-health? We want to hear #whatmatters to you through and online Emotion Mapping activity.
Email alive-hub@unimelb.edu.au to receive a private link to an interactive emotion mapping board.
#mentalhealth #livedexperience
Communities, final call to register! 👇 👇 👇
Come along and hear from Jean Paul about two important projects- The Village Project (on supporting children and #families where parents have mental ill-health) and Healthy Minds (strengthening #perinatalmentalhealth infant #mentalhealth care.)
Thank you to everyone who came along to today's Funding Galaxy Q&A event on the Totality of Partnerships.
There were such important conversations had about forming #partnerships from our diverse expert panel.
Updated guidebook coming soon! simplebooklet.com/ngrnfundingg...
#mentalhealthresearch
Communities, join us on Thursday 28th August at 1pm AEST as we hear from Jean Paul on "Co-designing #community support for #families to strengthen mental #wellbeing, examples from two #research projects based in Austria."
Register here 🔗 : www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-alive-...
Have you ever wondered how meaningful research partnerships across the #mentalhealth sector are built & sustained - and how can you write these into your grant applications?
Join us next week and hear from the experts at this years Funding Galaxy Q&A!
Register here 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/6dwp
August 4-10 is Loneliness Awareness Week. In one of our projects, A-Part of the Crowd, young people have been sharing their real experiences of loneliness during life's big changes.
More about the A-Part of the Crowd: alivenetwork.com.au/our-projects...
#MomentsMatter #LonelinessAwarenessWeekAU
Communities, we are pleased to announce that the next #Funding Galaxy Q&A panel event will be held on Thursday August 21st 2025. The topic this year is the Totality of #partnerships and will cover how to build meaningful and lasting #ResearchPartnerships.
🔗 Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/6dwp
Our Lost in Translation – Autumn 2025 zine is here ✨
This special issue dives into the 2025 Holistic Transitions Symposium held on beautiful Arrernte Country in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), co-hosted with our amazing research partners, Children's Ground.
Read now: alivenetwork.com.au/lost-in-tran...
This NAIDOC Week we celebrate 50 years of a movement that continues to grow, carried by the strength of community, the vision of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and the legacy of those who came before us. Together we step forward, grounded in legacy and an invitation to walk together.