Professor Michelle Banfield

Michelle Banfield is Co-Director & Lived Experience Research Lead for the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation, Head of Lived Experience Research at the Australian National University (ANU) Centre for Mental Health Research and Chair of the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee. As a career academic living with bipolar disorder, Michelle’s work centres on embedded lived experience in research and translation. For over 20 years, she has been conducting research in partnership with others with lived experience and within the sector to develop and implement effective mental health research, services and policy reform. Michelle will be talking about her experiences in combining her lived and academic expertise for a unique and challenging career.