Tanya is Head of Research and Involvement at The McPin Foundation. She is passionate about advancing lived experience leadership in research. Her expertise, developed through academic and third-sector roles, is also informed by her lived experience as a service user and carer. Drawing on strengths-based and narrative approaches from her youth social work and advocacy background, Tanya's research spans Australia and the UK, with a focus on peer work, vicarious trauma, coproduction, and collective impact. She leads reflective practice sessions at McPin and offers mentoring to external lived experience researchers.