Indigenous Peoples are from all over the world and cover various and distinct cultures, languages, practices and knowledges. It is not a race nor is it a monolith.

The multi-ethnic working class is a socially constructed umbrella term to describe those who have been marginalised and artificially classified due to their type of work and income.

Lived experience is an individual’s direct, first-hand experience from living through a specific phenomenon.

We argue that it is necessary to keep the definition generic in order to be inclusive of the many different forms that lived experience can take.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has sent a reminder of the imminent effects of climate change in our society. It has further highlighted the fragility of the balance between humans and environment, and has clearly exposed biological inequity in our society.

Community Sovereignty is an umbrella term that brings together methods of practice for organisations and scientific researchers to establish equitable engagement with communities.

This is a term identified by Centric Lab to define a knowledge pool that self-identifies as supreme to systematically dictate the knowledges that are valuable, trusted, and acknowledged, resulting in hegemonic policies that affect our health.

Whilst the term BAME can still be used to demonstrate systemic racism, it is not a useful term for rehabilitation. The environment, including its experiences mediates poor health outcomes rather than ethnicity or race.