The Lifeline Research Office informs world leading research and advocacy to enhance our services and support, so we continue to meet the needs of all Australians in crisis. We do this by working with people with lived and living experience, suicide prevention researchers, and others to rigorously generate new evidence-based insights and support implementation of that new knowledge into our service offerings.
Not only do we use the evidence base to inform how we support people in crisis: We use it to support all of Lifeline’s activities including raising public awareness, building understanding in the community, and advocating for effective non-clinical responses to suicide prevention and crisis support across Australia.
One of the Lifeline Research Office’s key functions is to conduct research that informs the development of effective, evidence-based programs to support Lifeline’s vision for an Australia free of suicide. The systematic process of research ‘translation’, or implementation science, creates an essential link between research and practical outcomes for people seeking help. All the LRO’s projects receive input from academic partners and Lifeline’s Lived Experience Advisory Group.
The Lifeline Research Office partners with leading Australian and international research groups to grow the crisis support and suicide prevention evidence base. This research is the cornerstone of Lifeline’s service provision, advocacy and policy advice.
The Lifeline Research Office regularly develops reports and submissions to identify gaps and helps develop and enhance evidence-based crisis support, suicide prevention and postvention policy approaches.
The Lifeline Research Office has an archive of previous research projects, reports and submissions. The body of work has identified gaps and developed enhance-evidence based crisis support, suicide prevention and postvention approaches for over a decade.
The Lifeline Lived Experience Advisory Group (LLEAG) provide strategic advice and leadership based on a systems-level understanding of suicide prevention, crisis support and the needs and interests of people with lived experience, working from both lived experience and lived expertise.
