
Media & Podcasts
A refreshing view to Mental Health with Matthew Jackman
The Blokes Psychology Podcast
Matthew is a social worker, researcher, academic, phd student and an individual who has lived most of his life with significant mental health challenges. This episode will challenge how you view mental health/illness and what we can do to address stigma and improve supports for people in the community.
Exploring Madness, Lived Experience and Gender Fluidity
Bottled Up
Sunny sits with Matthew Jackman for Episode 30 of Bottled Up. Matthew lives with Bipolar Affective Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (defined by DSM/Psychiatry), is a sibling caregiver to his younger brother and sister who live with enduring psychosocial diverse abilities, and has lost his mother to suicide, and consequently his grandparents due to stigma. He is a global mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice and lived experience as an academic science from public health and MAD STUDIES disciplines.
Lived Experience Research - with Dr Kate Davies and guests
Our Human Experience - University of Newcastle
Lived experience researchers draw on their own experiences, such as disability and mental illness, as assets in the research process. This approach to research may be one way to challenge traditional dichotomies between the ‘researcher’ and the ‘research subject’. Here, Kate Davies, Lauren Hislop and Shaylie Pryer talk about the value of lived experience research and what it has meant for them to work together using autoethnography as a method for reclaiming power over their own stories.
Matthew Jackman: The Non-Binary Switch
Switch Your Sitch
This podcast had me scared shitless that I was going to screw it up from the start. Matthew and I chew the non-binary fat on what gender fluidity really means, the mental health component of labelling gender, how we can educate ourselves on using Them/They as opposed to traditional labelling methods and just how important community is to positive change.
Mental Health Podcasts - University of South Australia
Episode 13: Global lived experience leadership
In Episode 13, Mark talks with Matthew, who is a lived experience leader, academic and global activist. Matthew shares on his engagement with global mental health forums and how lived experience connects with social theory, social justice perspectives and social work. Below are the organisational links Matthew refers to and his lived experience profile.
Matthew is a survivor of trauma, abuse and suicide
Everyday People
Welcome to the very first Aussie on Everyday People! Today we talk about mental health /“illness”, SANISM, Mad studies, SUICIDE and living with Bipolar 'Dis'order, with the one and only Matthew Jackman. Matthew is the founder of the Founder TACFLE , The Australian Center for Lived Experiences, and is an absolute hero as he talks about how to turn your own lived experiences into your own superpower.
Lived Experience Research - with Dr Kate Davies and guests
Don’t Quit on Me
Matthew received Australia's National Mental Health Advocate award by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia in 2020. Matthew is the Founder/CEO of The Australian Centre for Lived Experience, a peer run centre for lived experience persons seeking alternative peer approaches. They live with Bipolar Affective Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ( 'as defined' by DSM/Psychiatry), is a sibling caregiver to their younger brother and sister who live with enduring psychosocial diverse abilities, and has lost their mother to suicide, and consequently grandparents due to stigma. Learn More
Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues
ReThreading Madness
Matthew Jackman has an intense conversation with Bernadine about the importance of the recognizing the immense value of those with lived experience as we examine mental health challenges. Matthew Jackman is a mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice … he is activist from an academic science from a public health and mad studies knowledge base.