Mark is the inaugural lecturer of lived experience in mental health within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. His work aims to promote the values of consumer perspective and experience, recovery and person centred care. He also seeks to promote lived experince inclusion and leadership in research projects, encouraging recognition and growth of the contribution that lived experience offers, as well as the growth of the peer workforce. Marks background includes professional experience as a advocate and educator in community mental health, as well as consumer and community engagement.
The position of Lecturer; lived experience was originally co-funded via partnership between Mind Australia Ltd and... Read more
About me
Mark is the inaugural lecturer of lived experience in mental health within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. His work aims to promote the values of consumer perspective and experience, recovery and person centred care. He also seeks to promote lived experince inclusion and leadership in research projects, encouraging recognition and growth of the contribution that lived experience offers, as well as the growth of the peer workforce. Marks background includes professional experience as a advocate and educator in community mental health, as well as consumer and community engagement.
The position of Lecturer; lived experience was originally co-funded via partnership between Mind Australia Ltd and UniSA.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) University of South Australia
2015 - 2014 Health Consumers Alliance of SA Inc - Manager: Consumer Engagement/ Senior Project Officer - Partnerships and Engagement
2013 - 2008 Relationships Australia SA - Team Leader/ Senior Project Officer- Mental Health Programs
2014 - 2002 Sessional Academic - UniSA School of Nursing and Midwiifery/ School of Social Work and Social Policy
1996-2002 Multicultural Mental Health Access Program Inc - Executive Officer and Manager
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
SA Community Suicide Postvention Rapid Review and Environmental Scan, Preventive Health SA, 15/05/2024 - 05/08/2024
Crisis response in mental health care, Neami National, 01/02/2021 - 31/07/2024
National Mental Health Commission 'Spotlight' Report on Person Centred and Person Led Care Concepts Used in Mental Health, National Mental Health Commision, 01/07/2021 - 31/07/2022
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
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| 2024 |
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| 2024 |
Open access
6
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| 2024 |
Open access
1
1
53
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| 2024 |
Open access
1
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| 2024 |
Open access
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| 2024 |
Open access
1
2
6
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| 2024 |
Open access
15
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| 2024 |
Open access
12
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| 2023 |
Open access
5
5
10
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| 2023 |
Open access
2
2
53
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| 2022 |
4
4
6
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| 2022 |
Open access
2
2
9
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| 2022 |
Open access
8
5
29
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| 2022 |
Open access
7
6
47
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| 2022 |
Open access
6
3
32
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| 2021 |
Open access
56
53
76
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| 2021 |
Open access
4
9
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| 2021 |
Open access
4
4
10
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| 2020 |
Open access
12
10
41
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| 2019 |
Open access
12
11
25
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| 2018 |
10
5
2
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2019 |
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Loughhead, M. (2012) ‘The ArtThink Community Mental Health Education Program: The role of Arts and Creativityin Broadening Mental Health Literacy’. Paper presented at the 2012 ASPAC Conference – Exploring Relationships inMental Health, Perth, WA, June 12.
Loughhead, M. (2006) ‘Exploring the expression of personal history within Consumer-Centred Teaching’.Health Issues Journal, Spring 2006, No. 88.
Loughhead, M. (2006) ‘Making the most of partnerships in mental health education: How consumers and carersexpress their knowledge across personal and public settings’. Seminar presentation for the Victorian TransculturalPsychiatry Unit, February 2006.
Loughhead, M. (2004) ‘Community participation in transcultural worker training: issues in the use of communityand professional knowledge’. Rhetoric to Reality, Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services, CanberraConference Proceedings 2003 S. Robertson, K Kellehear, M Teessonet al Sydney, TheMHS Conference: 170-174.
Loughhead, M. (2003) ‘Learning from experience: community participation in the transcultural educationof mental health professionals’ Synergy, Magazine of Multicultural Mental Health Australia, No 3.
Loughhead, M. (2003) ‘Consumer and carer teachers in transcultural mental health education: participantunderstandings on ‘community’ and ‘professional’ knowledge in worker education’. Paper presented at DiversityIn Health 2003 Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, October 27-29.
Loughhead, M. (2003) ‘The possibilities of critical ethnography in exploring community participation inmulticultural training for mental health workers’. Paper presented at Creating Spaces: Interdisciplinary Writings inthe Social Sciences Post-graduate Conference ANU, Canberra, 17-18 July, 2003.
Loughhead, M. (2000) Transcultural policy needs for SA Panel Address at Multicultural Health and Wellbeing- 1stForum of the SATMHN. Nov 2000.
Huynh, T., Hua, T. and Loughhead, M (2000)" The McMHAP Support Group Program". Paper presented atMulticultural Health and Wellbeing 1st Forum of the SATMHN. Nov 2000.
Loughhead, M., Huynh, T. Hua. T. (2000) ‘Multiculturalism and group programs in mental health: workingwith culture, language and diversity issues’. Paper presented at TheMHS 2000: Services for the Future. AnnualMental Health Services Conference. Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide 29-31 August 2000.
Loughhead, M. (1999) "Mental health promotion and multicultural service development: a challenge for mentalhealth services". Paper presented at the First National Conference of the Australian Transcultural Mental HealthNetwork. Melbourne Town Hall 22-23 October 1999.
Loughhead, M. (1999) ‘The transcultural agenda: effective strategies for organisational change in mental healthservice development’. Paper presented at First National Conference of the Australian Transcultural Mental HealthNetwork. Melbourne Town Hall 22-23 October 1999.
Loughhead, M. (1999) ‘Ingredients for change: roles and responsibilities in Mental Health Service Development’.Synergy, Newsletter of the Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network Summer, 1, 4.Loughhead, M.(1998) ‘Mental health promotion and new arrivals: a challenge for mental health services’. MentalHealth in Australia, vol. 9 no. 2, pp. 71-76.
Ali Gami, K., Hua, T., Klusak, T. Khchao, S. & Loughhead, M. (1998)’ Mental health issues for refugees’.Paper presented at Our Lives Our Choices 2, Consumer Conference, Adelaide 1998.
Loughhead, M. (1994) ‘Social Work, Institutional Racism and Aboriginal People’. Honours Thesis Dissertationprepared for Bachelor of Social Work (Hons), School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of SA.
Convenor: Mental Health Series Podcasts
Current networks and memberships
UniSA Mental Health and Substance Use Research Group: Communities of Practice
Mind Australia: Research and Evaluation Committee, PARCS Evaluation Lived Experience Advisory Committee
SA Lived Experience Workforce Project: Professional development and leader training inititives
Health Consumers Alliance of SA: Policy Council
UniSA Health Economics and Social Policy Group: Mental health service and workforce planning project
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Australian Red Cross | AUSTRALIA |
| Charles Sturt University | AUSTRALIA |
| Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) | AUSTRALIA |
| Government of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
| Lived Experience Leadership and Advocacy Network | AUSTRALIA |
| Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research and Education Group | AUSTRALIA |
| Mental Health Coalition of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Mind Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Murdoch University | AUSTRALIA |
| South Australia Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network | AUSTRALIA |
| Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance and Rehabilitation Service | AUSTRALIA |
| UnitingSA Ltd | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Eastern Finland | FINLAND |
| University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| "Don't share your story here... it's not safe". An exploratory study of organisational shifts to improve recognition, valuing and integration of peer and lived experience workforces in mental health | Current |
| The lived experience of those with an NDIS plan presenting to the emergency department: a mixed methods study | Current |
