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Brett Scholz

@wingspan.bsky.social
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Addicted to matcha latte 🍵 and reforming health systems ✊🏻 All things #LivedExperienceLeadership | Vice-Chair @ischp.bsky.social | Associate Professor #ourANU School of Medicine and Psychology

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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 20h
Crashed a mums and bubs #wildlife party this morning
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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
From community engagement to lived experience leadership: a systematic review of HIV services among men who have sex with men @aaronharoldp.bsky.social, Elizabeth Waldron, I Nyoman Sutarsa, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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From community engagement to lived experience leadership: a systematic review of HIV services among men who have sex with men
Abstract. Community responses are essential to achieving the global goal of Ending AIDS by 2030, yet men who have sex with men (MSM) remain underrepresente
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hanson is just the tip of the oligarchs’ far-right iceberg theshot.net.au/uncategorize... #auspol #Australia #OneNation
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Hanson is just the tip of the oligarchs’ far-right iceberg - The Shot
Pauline Hanson is a Sunny Boy.​​ A bright orange triangle of highly flavoured ice that delights immature palates. She is...
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Feel free to check out this paper about #Aphantasia, @notcorry.sciguys.co.uk & @lukecutforth.bsky.social -- it uses a SciGuys transcript as part of the data. Hope you enjoy how meta that is -- SciGuys being used to produce scientific knowledge -- and thanks for giving us a lot to think about!
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Check out my recent publication (co-authored with my mum!) which explores how #aphantasia is often widely understood as a deficiency, a disorder, or dehumanising. Such understandings were common in social media posts, but also in scientific literature in the field. (1/4) doi.org/10.58544/ims...
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Disordered, deficient, and dehumanised: How biomedical and cognitive approaches are limiting our understandings of aphantasia | International Mad Studies Journal
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I always say 明後日 because I didn't know there was an English word for it. We need a word for 明明後日 though... not sure if overovermorrow or overmorrowmorrow would work best...
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Pretty happy finishing up the working year by being recognised in a group email as a relentless voice for lived experience leadership. Honestly feeling like I can log-off for 2025 satisfied now.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Hi @notcorry.sciguys.co.uk 👋 I just had a paper published that includes extracts of the SciGuys episode transcript on aphantasia as data. I couldn't find a SciGuys contact but would love to send you a copy! Will be sharing the details on here too in due course.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Eurovision vote didn't go the way I expected. Its kind of both incomprehensible but also semi-unsurprising. Honestly just devastating to know 2026 is going to be yet another year we can't enjoy celebrating music together.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Feeling a little worn out (but perhaps not surprised) that the glass ceiling in lived experience leadership we described almost a decade ago (across a range of orgs) is still going strong (as described here in service orgs)... Doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2017.1280106
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Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: Consumers in Mental Health Organisations' Hierarchies
Contemporary mental health policies call for consumers to be engaged in all levels of mental health service planning, implementation, and delivery. Critical approaches to traditional healthcare hie...
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I'd seen the reporting around Keira Knightley's awful response but wow the video makes it... even worse??? It's so dismissive and callous and that horrible little laugh??? like what the hell?? And the smarmy, "I'm very sorry" in the least apologetic tone I've ever heard in my life. Jfc.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I just read a paper I wanted to cite in a grant application, only to get to the reference list and see that it cites what must be an AI hallucinated paper "written" by me. 🙃
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I haven't managed to catch up with Days 1 and 2 of #PXP25 just yet...but it sounds like I'll need to go through some interesting conversations. This quote from Michelle particularly reminds me of some of our earlier work on pushing back on institutional barriers: doi.org/10.1111/inm....
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‘There's just no flexibility’: How space and time impact mental health consumer research
Non-consumer researchers collaborating with consumer researchers can benefit from greater relevance of research and improved congruence between research processes and health policy. As with all resea...
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The NHMRC is seeking feedback on its Draft Statement regarding Consumer and Community Involvement. In this article, I discuss how the Statement falls short in incorporating recent research and addressing current best practice for effective consumer participation: open.substack.com/pub/livedexp...
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Making a timid statement
And how the NHMRC Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement could become more bold and live up to its values
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I spent my Sunday morning writing about how the NHMRC & CHF draft Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research draws on outdated ideas that limit consumer involvement. I'll be posting it to the Lived Experience Leadership Substack tomorrow.
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Lived Experience Leadership | Brett Scholz | Substack
A monthly reflection on the trends and developments in lived experience leadership across the health sector. Click to read Lived Experience Leadership, by Brett Scholz, a Substack publication. Launche...
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Check out the #pechakucha I presented at ISCHP2025 about the exponential increase in patient involvement (and how we're not really as participatory as we'd like to believe) livedexperienceleadership.substack.com/p/the-expone...
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The exponential growth of patient involvement
Much ado and not doing much
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Mirre aka Foervraengd @lagomcore.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Nothing says US centric social media as when everyone assume pride month is in june. When thats just the case in the US. Sweden has pride month july/august and some countries have it in december. EVERY MONTH is pride month somewhere in the world.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Bridget Brennan asking the important questions of the treasurer about Labor's commitments to Indigenous communities...to a somewhat lacklustre answer. Australians showed they don't buy into the exclusion sold by conservatives. Let's hope Labor lean in to the mandate they have been handed #AusVotes
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Anthony Eaton @anthonyeaton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Hey Albo, how about fixing the universities now, eh? #auspol #ausvotes #binnight
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
In honour of the great work of Antony GREEN @antonygreenelec.bsky.social I made a matcha cheesecake to enjoy while sitting back watching #AusVotes outcomes.
Slices of matcha cheesecake in front of Antony Green and his big screen
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Have a listen to this latest ISCHP podcast! I had great chat with Wendy Stainton-Rogers about where critical health psychology has been and where it might go next...
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Simon Katterl @simonkkatterl.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Jane is in Victoria and Chinese Victorians may consider making a public complaint to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I loved having this chat with Gareth Treharne about all things ISCHP. Have a listen to get into the ISCHP spirit ahead of #ISCHP2025 in Galway in 3 months time!!
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just as Trump cuts billions from U.S. universities and drives leading academics out of the country, Dutton chooses yet another Trump card from the deck. Cash is spot on; Dutton will aim to deliver “exact same” as Trump
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I really enjoyed this study. Perhaps not surprising, but good to get some data about how lived experience disclosures can show clients that their therapist is “human,” but this may come at the cost that they are no longer viewed as a “professional.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
How bizarre that there is someone out there who thought men would need their own cakes...
An ad for "Men's Cakes" including a picture of several men at a party looking festive, with a big, slightly bizarre looking tiered cake with large gold flakes arranged haphazardly down one side. The ad emphasises how easy this company makes it to "order birthday and other celebration cakes for men online".
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This month, I reflect on the use of "lived experience leader" as an identity, and talk about how it's both positive (making #LivedExperienceLeadership visible) and concerning (in how it relates to central tenets of lived experience leadership) livedexperienceleadership.substack.com/publish/post...
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Is ‘Lived Experience Leader’ an identity?
Or is lived experience leadership better understood as an action oriented practice?
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
ABOUT ME: I post mostly about lived experience leadership in health policy, services, research and education. I don't work from a lived experience perspective myself, but write a lot of academic articles and substack posts about lived experience leadership. I also post about Eurovision and Matcha.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
So disappointed in how bland the matcha #MeghanMarkle just made looks. It's barely green!
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Gearing up for #ISCHP2025? Make sure you're subscribed to The Operative Word podcast and listen to the first episode of Season 2. We will be talking about where ISCHP has come from and where it might go...
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new book out, I've been thinking about how disappointing it is when you can't enjoy previous favourites once you realise they're ignorant and bigoted. Even if a little of me was tempted to read Dream Count, this is a good reminder that it would fund vile causes.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Yet another reviewer who clearly doesn't understand #qualitative research but feels confident enough to recommend a study be rejected because it doesn't "test" research questions and its "very small" sample.
Screenshot of a comment from a reviewer that says "Your study does not test research questions and the sample is very small and does not warrant solid inferences".
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I've just submitted my #ISCHP2025 abstract. If you haven't yet...you have a few more days to do so. Don't forget! And looking forward to connecting with others who take a critical approach to health in Galway in July.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Nobody else in the whole room during this presentation seemed to have a single reaction about this #TerribleMap. Although it was surprising that despite moving the Korean peninsula and a whole chunk of South East Asia further into the Pacific, the map DID include Aoetearoa New Zealand somehow.
A map of the Western Pacific in which the Korean Peninsula and South East Asia has been disconnected from the Asian continent and moved eastward into the ocean.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My first #LivedExperienceLeadership substack post for 2025 looks at the impact of Sarah Gordon's seminal paper on the topic published in 2005. livedexperienceleadership.substack.com/p/more-than-... #ConsumerLeadership #PatientLeadership #PPI
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More than twenty years of academic literature about lived experience leadership
Twenty years ago, in 2005, Sarah Gordon published what is often considered the first discussion specifically focusing on lived experience leadership – as we have come to know it – in the academic lite...
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PLOS Mental Health @plosmentalhealth.org · 10/02/2025
#NewPLOSMentalHealthEssay @wingspan.bsky.social & colleagues from The Australian National University advocate for comprehensive, inclusive, & culturally informed research, programs, & interventions for sexual & gender minority populations in the broader Filipino community. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Integrating syndemics and intersectionality in tackling the HIV and mental health epidemics among Filipino gay and bisexual men
Insufficient attention has been given to the social aspects of HIV and mental health in the Philippines despite their profound impact on Filipinos, particularly gay and bisexual men and other men who ...
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Join us at the 14th Conference of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology at the University of Galway this summer! This conference will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of health and social justice. Rarely has this been of more importance! www.ischp2025.ie
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Cooking three types of pizza (nem nuong, lap xuong, and prawn) for new year's eve dinner and searching for cooking instructions, I came across this very helpful manual for housewives...
Instructions for a multi purpose oven for "housewives to prepare dishes from simple to complex easily"
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It's been a hectic last day of the year so far...but about to send one last email and then reflect with an afternoon matcha on the past year, and think about the year ahead.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Whoah so 7 of my votes made it into the Hottest 100? And 3 into the top 5 (#1, #2 and #4). I don't think I've ever been so on-the-money!
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Is it really a Hottest 100 if you're not drinking puerh and enjoying home grown jackfruit and a massive seed of durian?
Jackfruit and durian platter
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Ok -- I also voted for A Tear in Space (Airlock) by Glass Animals, which has made it to number 72 in the Hottest 100 this year... but I have a feeling I won't have any more of my voted for songs from now up until Number 1.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Uh oh -- my votes are peaking too soon! The Feminine Urge by The Last Dinner Party in at number 78 of the Hottest 100.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Black Balloon - The Rubens coming in at number 79 of the Hottest 100. First song in the countdown so far that I voted for!
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Had a blackout this morning in the village and missed the first few songs of the Hottest 100. Power is back on now, and the neighbours' Tết karaoke parties haven't started up yet -- should be able to enjoy the next 10 songs or so uninterrupted!
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George's Σουβλάκια🏺🥙 @thebigsouvlaki.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
This is exactly what Hitler said about a 100 years ago. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Dutton says ‘strong’ leader needed to heal anxious nation
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Australia has one last chance at the coming election to return to prosperity.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
If you can't decide if you're after some Bi Luxury or just browsing Bum Store, this street in Sơn La is for you.
A store on one side of the road called BiLuxuryA store on the other side of the road called Bum Store
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Is there a way to block linkedin posts from terfs from my feed? We don't need that in 2025.
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Brett Scholz @wingspan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Getting a request to review a paper 30 minutes before the end of the working year feels quite bizarre. (As an editor I empathise with the struggle to get reviewers at any time of year...but on December 20?!?!)
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