These case stories were developed to reflect on research carried out by the Lowitja Institute, its predecessor the CRC for Aboriginal Health and their partner organisations. Many of these case stories were featured in Researching Indigenous Health: A Practical Guide for Researchers and in Supporting Indigenous Researchers: A Practical Guide for Supervisors.
Approaches to research
- The challenge of learning research language
- The Community Harmony Project
- Consider all resources needed for a project
- The CRCAH facilitated development approach to research
- An emerging Indigenous researcher’s experience
- Gapuwiyak child health project: collaborative and participatory research
- Getting input from others with an interest in the research
- Making contacts and getting support
- Research values are team values: A way of working
- Searching for grey literature
- Talking up the research: Forum and follow-on consultation
- Using Dadirri as a research methodology
- Using yarning as a research methodology
Supporting communities to be involved in research
- Aboriginal Health Workers at roundtable
- Carolyn Thompson's story
- Cyril Oliver – From Aboriginal Health Worker to Link person
- Developing a mental health research team, community resources and training
- The Family Wellbeing program: empowerment research
- Identifying community groups in south-west Sydney
- Mentoring emerging Indigenous researchers to present at a conference (Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit)
- Mibbinbah Indigenous Men’s Project, an action research project centred on capacity building
- Planning and managing a study across Queensland
- Training community workers to deliver local informed consent materials
- A university–peak body collaboration
Supporting researchers in working with communities
- Being the local face of research
- Brian McCoy: strong research built on a long relationship
- Building relationships for a clinical study
- A health service’s criteria for a research partnership
- Ross Bailie: Learning a new approach
- ‘Visual mapping’ as a design tool
- What a peak body looks for in a research partnership
Student experiences
- Healthy Skin students (La Trobe University)
- Misty Jenkins
- One thesis for two audiences
- Scott Miller
- Vanessa Clements
How research can benefit communities and health systems
- Better care and outcomes for cardiac patients from remote areas
- Building capacity through a research and parenting intervention program
- Community action to promote child growth in Gapuwiyak
- Developing capacity and community training through an action research project
- The Elliot Survey that changed local liquor rules
- Learning from Action project
- Mental health partnerships in South Australia
- Sharing the True Stories: For better communication in healthcare
- Using evidence from a diabetes study to change local clinical guidelines
- Victorian Aboriginal Health Service Young People's Project – A community project
Methods for reporting and dissemination
- A Canadian survey about knowledge exchange
- Community-directed knowledge exchange
- Creating a poster to share research information
- Disseminating research through the media
- Making a DVD for informed consent processes
- Planning and writing for dissemination
- Sharing evidence and planning change through storytelling
- Working on the art of writing
- Writing an article for a peer-reviewed journal
Academic supervision
- Good practice supervision
- What students look for in a supervisor
- The academic supervisor-student relationship
- A student's experience of best-practice academic supervision
Planning the research job
- How to do a job analysis
- Acknowledging specialised traditional knowledge and complex research skills
- Recruitment and training of peer interviewers
- Recruiting staff to the CRCAH
- An introduction to research processes
Workplace supervision
- Orientation and induction of new workers on a project
- An emerging researcher and work planning
- Working in an Indigenous framework
- Example of a work planning approach
- Building skill development into work plannning and setting goals
Training and professional development
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Created: 03 May 2012 - Updated: 10 January 2013