Dwayne Antojado is a lived experience criminologist and academic with lived experience of the criminal legal system in Australia. He uses his lived experience to influence his research and advocacy work in academia, government, and the not-for-profit sector. He has led and worked on various projects embedding and amplifying lived experience perspectives in organisational practice, structure and processes. His current work delves into the critical importance of incorporating and privileging lived experience perspectives in criminological scholarship and research, whilst broadening the conceptualisation of lived experience beyond autoethnography, thereby introducing the emergence of a novel subfield he terms 'Lived Experience Criminology.' Dwayne is presently leading three book projects on lived experience: Beyond Autoethnography: Lived Experience Criminology (Routledge, expected 2025, with Matthew Maycock and Danica Darley), Alongside Lived Experience of Criminal Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, expected 2025, with Maggie Hall), Lived Experience in Criminal Justice Research, Policy and Practice (Routledge, expected 2025, with Gill Buck, Lucy Campbell, James Windle, Jim Watson, Kemi Ryan, and Natasha Ryan). His collaborations extend to organisations such as Jesuit Social Services, Vacro, Humans of San Quentin and RMIT University’s community-based and prison-based think tanks. Dwayne is a postgraduate criminology student in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, and holds sessional academic appointments at various universities in Australia. He is also a Senior Writer for Paper Chained Magazine, a journal of artistic expression from individuals affected by incarceration. His research interests include LGBTQIA+ experiences in the justice system, Lived Experience Criminology, education in prisons, and prison radio.