While the Authentic Voice project is rooted in VAWG work we believe that these themes and questions are relevant for anyone seeking to embed lived experience work across all sectors and policy areas. Themes include: health, criminal justice, children, young people & families, education, employability and community learning.

You may hear the term survivor, lived experience and expert by experience to describe those who have first-hand experience of gender-based violence and trauma. The terms professional or expert by profession may be used to describe those who have learned more about the effect of these experiences through their work.  We encourage everyone to choose the language which best suits their experience and viewpoint. We also want to highlight that some people may identify with both expert by experience and expert by profession.