2026 Stratford Lecture
The 2026 Stratford Lecture was co-presented by Rana Te Huia and Magdel Hammond, who both come to Australia from Aotearoa (New Zealand). They draw on their considerable experience in lived experience governance and developing peer led services to do a deep dive into the resistances and barriers to developing a truly lived experience led mental health system.
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2025 Stratford Lecture
The 2025 Stratford Lecture guest speaker was Helen Roennfeldt, a lived experience researcher and PhD candidate, whose work focuses on lived experiences of mental health crisis and crisis care. Helena’s own experience of crisis and psychiatric facilities has been the catalyst for her interest in the personal meanings of mental health crises and in how we can respond to crisis through the lens of lived experience to humanise crisis.”
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2024 Stratford Lecture
The Inaugural lecture guest speaker (in 2024) was Ellie Hodges, a nationally recognised lived experience thought leader. Ellie’s lecture explored the need for high level system transformation that is informed and led by people with lived experience.
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Anthony Stratford’s Legacy
Anthony, who passed away in March 2023, dedicated his life to advocating for a recovery and lived experience approach to supporting people with mental health challenges. Much of his journey from personal recovery to advocating for system change happened during his time working at Mind.
Each year, the Stratford Lecture invites a guest speaker to present on a critical issue related to lived experience leadership in the transformation of the mental health system.