{
  "abstract": "As a patient and public involvement contributor and a woman of colour, I (AG) have been part of various research panels over the past couple of years. I welcome Walker and colleagues’ call to acknowledge lived experience as expertise.1 But being “included” in the room does not always translate to being heard, especially for people of colour or marginalised contributors. We are often invited into projects that lack emotional safeguarding and no one closes the feedback loop.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Araya Gautam"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Kerala University of Health Sciences, Thrissur, India"
      ],
      "name": "Sanath Johnson"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Lived experience must be properly recognised",
  "uid": "3647c566-81d1-5cb8-a4b5-46e2f69b8aa1"
}