Too many children live with material hardship, and those in households with disabled people are severely hard-hit, the Child Poverty Coalition says

Official documents reveal how political obsession with attendance targets replaced basic public health science... and why our kids are paying the price.

People living with disabilities or through poverty and racism develop deep practical knowledge of how institutions function. They should be seen as experts.

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Lived experience plays a critical role in decentring and reshaping bodies of knowledge that have produced epistemic violence while proclaiming objectivity. Anchored in critical and feminist pedagog...

The Transport Minister, Chris Bishop, has confirmed that the Total Mobility subsidy is being cut from 75% down to 65%.

As calls to center lived experience in higher education intensify, so too do concerns about the ethical, emotional, and structural risks involved in integrating real-life narratives into pedagogy. ...

People with lived experience of disability continue to face significant barriers with accessing quality healthcare, leading to shortened life expectancies and poorer health outcomes. Involving peop...

Policy requires that mental health consumers be involved in all aspects of mental health service and delivery, including training. The extent to which consumer involvement has been part of psycholo...

Comment from Victoria University: In 2022 NZ’s Long Covid response showed promise, but it’s hard to justify our business-as-usual approach now

By Dr Huhana Hickey MNZM

Higher education curricula that explore aspects of human experience may overlap with students’ own lives. However, the experience of learning about personally relevant material is not well understo...

Efforts to share decision-making and responsibility for learning and teaching can be impeded by the hierarchical structures and practices of most institutions of higher education. However, without ...

The involvement of people with lived experience of mental distress has growing recognition as a method for enhancing healthcare higher education. Although storytelling is a pedagogical tool to shar...

This piece explores the benefits and challenges of discussing social class in university classroom settings. It emphasises the importance of recognising social class as a form of lived experience, ...

They're a game-changer in terms of reducing waste, but only a handful of contradictory studies have been done on their safety.

This conceptual paper examines how lived experience of war trauma and forced migration can enhance pedagogy and practice in higher education. Using autoethnographic methodology, the paper analyses ...

Grief and trauma are often marginalized in higher education, which prioritizes detachment and performance over care. Drawing on personal experience, critical grief pedagogy, and trauma-informed fra...

This article explores a pedagogy of refusal that developed in response to bodily doubt. First, I detail the emergence of bodily doubt resulting from a cancer diagnosis, drawing on Havi Carel's phen...

This article explores the contribution of disability lived experience teaching to student learning and the systems and culture of higher education. Using autoethnography, it narrates my personal st...