Jade Lane

Jade is a qualitative researcher whose work spans violence prevention, drug use, and incarceration. She approaches research as a political practice – one that can either reinforce existing harms or work against them.

Jade's research draws on a range of qualitative and participatory methods, including feminist and co-design approaches, autoethnography, and creative and multimodal methods that explore how knowledge can be produced and communicated in forms beyond academic writing, to produce evidence that is rigorous, led by the communities it concerns, and returned to the people and places it comes from. Her practice is informed by her own lived experience of violence, criminalisation and substance dependence. She is the inaugural recipient of the Alfred Research Alliance 2025 Scientific Abstract Competition in Consumer Involvement in Research, reflecting her commitment to research that is genuinely accountable to the people it is about.

Jade is Principal Investigator on 'We Keep Us Safe,' Burnet's first ANROWS-funded project, co-designing community-led responses to domestic, family, and sexual violence among people with histories of drug use and criminalisation. She is Associate Investigator on SUSTain, a five-year mixed-methods study on transitional care for women with substance dependence leaving prison. She also co-coordinates The Forest, Burnet's lived experience co-design program working to end cycles of reincarceration. She works in Australian and international contexts.

• Master of Disaster, Design and Development, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
• Bachelor of Arts Double Degree, International Aid and Development, and Politics and International Studies

• 2026–present: Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute
• 2024–2026: Research and Technical Advisor, Burnet Institute
• 2023–2024: Implementation and Engagement Planning Coordinator, The Forest, Burnet Institute
• 2021–2023: Lived Experience Practice Lead, Fitzroy Legal Service
• 2019–2021: Regional Violence Prevention Coordinator, Women’s Health Goulburn North East
• 2018–2019: Technical Advisor – Gender, Marie Stopes International