Prof. Victoria Palmer

Victoria is experienced in qualitative and mixed-method research design and analysis, including participatory design, experience co-design and health systems improvement. Victoria was the Inaugural Director of The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation funded by the NHMRC as part of a special initiative in mental health (2021-2026) for which she led the proposal for the Centre and now holds a position as one of three Co-Directors. Victoria is the head of the Co-Design Living Lab program which brings people with lived-experience of mental ill-health together with researchers for end to end research design to translation. The Living Labs program will expand within the ALIVE National Centre as it embeds and implements mental health care at-scale by focusing on the implementation of preventive models of care across the life course and healthier, longer healthier lives in priority populations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people who live with severe mental ill-health, emotional distress and trauma). The Centre aims to improve outcomes in primary care and community settings by fostering community-led models that are operationalised via three large national networks: an implementation and translation network, a co-design living lab network, and a next generation researcher network (which includes the tailored arm of the Lived-Experience Research Collective to foster research career paths and lived-experience led research). Victoria was the principal investigator of the world first trial of an adapted experience-based co-design model called Mental Health Experience Co-Design (a participatory quality improvement method) for people who accessed community mental health services (The CORE Study). She is the lead of a successful MRFF consumer led grant (2023-2026) to co-create PEACE a preventive, experiential, arts and cultural evidence model of care for public health to support holistic health conversations using virtual and augmented reality through a platform called Bigaagarri (danger, keep back). She has generated over $34M AU in category 1 competitive funding and been an investigator on over 38 grants. Victoria has been a member of National Health and Medical Research Council grant review panels, MRFF Million Minds Mission and was a member of the Victorian Government's Innovation Reference Group and a member of the lived experience engagement framework sub-committee leadership group for the implementation of the Victorian Ten Year Mental Health Plan. Victoria was awarded a public engagement award in 2020 for the Co-Design Living Labs program from the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences and the Most Distinguished Paper for the CORE study in 2018-2019.
Type
party
Access Privileges
Centre for Mental Health Research
Title
Prof.
Given Name
Victoria
Surname
Palmer
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7212-932X
Brief Description
Victoria is experienced in qualitative and mixed-method research design and analysis, including participatory design, experience co-design and health systems improvement
Full Description
Victoria is experienced in qualitative and mixed-method research design and analysis, including participatory design, experience co-design and health systems improvement. Victoria was the Inaugural Director of The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation funded by the NHMRC as part of a special initiative in mental health (2021-2026) for which she led the proposal for the Centre and now holds a position as one of three Co-Directors. Victoria is the head of the Co-Design Living Lab program which brings people with lived-experience of mental ill-health together with researchers for end to end research design to translation. The Living Labs program will expand within the ALIVE National Centre as it embeds and implements mental health care at-scale by focusing on the implementation of preventive models of care across the life course and healthier, longer healthier lives in priority populations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people who live with severe mental ill-health, emotional distress and trauma). The Centre aims to improve outcomes in primary care and community settings by fostering community-led models that are operationalised via three large national networks: an implementation and translation network, a co-design living lab network, and a next generation researcher network (which includes the tailored arm of the Lived-Experience Research Collective to foster research career paths and lived-experience led research). Victoria was the principal investigator of the world first trial of an adapted experience-based co-design model called Mental Health Experience Co-Design (a participatory quality improvement method) for people who accessed community mental health services (The CORE Study). She is the lead of a successful MRFF consumer led grant (2023-2026) to co-create PEACE a preventive, experiential, arts and cultural evidence model of care for public health to support holistic health conversations using virtual and augmented reality through a platform called Bigaagarri (danger, keep back). She has generated over $34M AU in category 1 competitive funding and been an investigator on over 38 grants. Victoria has been a member of National Health and Medical Research Council grant review panels, MRFF Million Minds Mission and was a member of the Victorian Government's Innovation Reference Group and a member of the lived experience engagement framework sub-committee leadership group for the implementation of the Victorian Ten Year Mental Health Plan. Victoria was awarded a public engagement award in 2020 for the Co-Design Living Labs program from the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences and the Most Distinguished Paper for the CORE study in 2018-2019.
Email Address
v.palmer@unimelb.edu.au
Postal Address
General Practice and Primary Care The University of Melboune
Phone Number
+61383444987
Website Address
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/183785-victoria-palmer; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7212-932X
Fields of Research
420305 - Health and community services; 420311 - Health systems; 420313 - Mental health services; 420319 - Primary health care; 420321 - Rural and remote health services
Socio-Economic Objective
200201 - Determinants of health; 200302 - Community health care; 200305 - Mental health services; 200310 - Primary care; 200409 - Mental health
Keywords
Mental health; lived experience; research priority-setting; consumers; carers; research agenda
Status: Published
Published to:
  • Australian National University
  • Australian National Data Service
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