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Exploring the characteristics of the research workforce in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health [PDF]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2008
This study was conducted to better understand the characteristics of current and past researchers in Indigenous health in Australia and the factors that may influence decisions about working in this field.A self-administered survey by e-mail or post to all individuals listed as an author on a published paper or who completed a PhD or masters research ...
Rumbold, A., Cunningham, J., Bailie, R., Hiller, J.   +3 more
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
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What Matters 2 Adults: a study protocol to develop a new preference-based wellbeing measure with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults (WM2Adults)

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Understandings of health and wellbeing are culturally bound. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people perceive wellbeing and quality of life (QOL) differently from the Western biomedical models of health underpinning existing QOL ...
Kirsten Howard, Kate Anderson, Joan Cunningham, Alan Cass, Julie Ratcliffe, Lisa J. Whop, Michelle Dickson, Rosalie Viney, Brendan Mulhern, Allison Tong, Gail Garvey   +10 more
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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How can we create equitable access to hearing healthcare in Australia? Interview with Prof. Tom Calma, Prof. Kelvin Kong and Hon. A/Prof. Boe Rambaldini

Public Health Research & Practice, 2021
Despite decades of research demonstrating that early intervention is critical to diagnosing and treating ear disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, not enough progress has been made in providing culturally safe, accessible and ...
Tom Calma, Kelvin M Kong, Boe Rambaldini
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Changing discourses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, 1914‐2014 [PDF]

Medical Journal of Australia, 2014
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people strongly assert that health research has contributed little to improving their health, in spite of its obvious potential. The health concerns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were largely ignored in early research published in the MJA, which reflected broader colonial history and racial ...
Thomas, David P., Bainbridge, Roxanne, Tsey, Komla   +2 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

The development and validation of a family functioning measure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Family and kinship networks are a key aspect of culture for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from Australia. They are intrinsically connected to good health and wellbeing, and cultural knowledge exchange.
Makayla-May Brinckley, Roxanne Jones, Philip J. Batterham, Alison L. Calear, Raymond Lovett   +4 more
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source