Research Advisory Group Member (Lived Experience)

We are inviting people with lived experience to join a Research Advisory Group. Members will help guide a research project about reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) affecting women from migrant and refugee communities. If you join the group, you will:

• Attend up to three online meetings per year (about 1 hour each)
• Share your views and feedback on project ideas and materials
• Help make sure the research is respectful, culturally safe and relevant
• This is a 3-year voluntary role.
• You will not be required to share personal experiences, but your lived experience will help shape the work.

Eligibility

• 18 years or older women
• identify themselves as a member of a migrant or refugee community
• support women’s right to make their own reproductive decisions including abortion, adoption, kin-ship care, not having children, use of contraception, and the timing and number of children (pro-choice)
• have lived experience of being pressured, controlled, threatened or harmed in relation to pregnancy, contraception or reproductive decisions
• can attend online meetings (Up to 3 meetings per year, about 1 hour each)
• Have or willing to apply for a Working with Children Check (WWCC) in Victoria