Waypoint Talks presents “The value of lived experience in research: Perspectives from lived experience co-researchers.”
Haily MacDonald, Executive Director at Huronia Transition Homes discusses the importance of keeping people with lived experience at the centre of intimate partner violence (IPV) research.
“It’s the only way that we should be doing this work.” Haily also emphasizes the importance of “Nothing about us without us”, which is something that really resonates with her.
At Huronia Transition Homes, the team does not do anything without it coming from the women in their program. By doing so, they recognize that being involved looks and feels very different as a person with lived experience, bringing in the lens of intersectionality, and helping to recognize there are many social locations that change the way these people go through the world, and can create change to the different systems of oppression that they are experiencing.
