Everyone has lived experience of the things they study. For example, if you study prisons but have never been to prison, your experience is one of absence and your biases are informed by whatever messaging you've been around...

If you study prisons and you were a prison guard at one prison, your biases are shaped by the positions of power (& lack of power, simultaneously) within that one prison.

If you're a doctor and study health services, you have biases too.

What is most threatening is the perpetuation of bias from positions of power, which is the default.

Would love to see conversations about "lived experience" be flipped in this way, where there are weights of concern and weights of value place according to power.

to be clear: it is reframing of these worries/discussions, not literally creating hard rules/formulas & gatekeeping

[this is most relevant to social science research, especially research on services and settings where the recipients lack power & are usually the ones referred to as having "lived experience"]