Rate My Professor Lyn Mahboub

Mahboub's career encompasses key advocacy contributions, such as participating in the 2003 Consumer Consultant Trial, co-founding the West Australian Mental Illness Awareness Council (now Consumers of Mental Health WA) in 2005, serving as inaugural Director of Hearing Voices Network Australia, and acting as Program Manager for Recovery Training at Richmond Fellowship. She co-developed initiatives like the HealthRight Project and WA Recovery College Alliance. Her research specializations include embedding mental health lived experience in social work education, service user perspectives in student supervision, peer work in mental health policy, recovery colleges, and stigma reduction. Notable publications are 'The integration of service user perspectives in social work student supervision' (2024), 'Learning About Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education' (2025), 'A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education' (2022), 'A journey of embedding mental health lived experience in social work education' (2016 and 2019), and 'Inclusion as Assimilation, Integration, or Co-optation? A Post-Structural Analysis of Inclusion as Produced Through Mental Health Research on Peer Support' (2023). With 21 publications and over 250 citations, she received recognition as part of the Valuing Lived Experience Program Team for innovation in curriculum design and pedagogy practice.