Lowitja Learning Summit: Adelaide Workshops

These workshops will create space for learning, connection, and shared knowledge alongside esteemed scholars and leaders, including Professor James Ward, Professor Sandra Eades, Stephen Harfield, Mr Robbie Palm, and Associate Professor Kim Morey. Workshops include Best Practice Community Engagement across the Research Cycle – Connection before Collection and Developing High Calibre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researchers. 

Each workshop has its own focus and is designed for a particular audience. Where indicated, sessions are open to Lowitja Institute Members and/or Friends, as well as individuals who have applied to join our Members Community. 

Facilitators

Professor James Ward
Lead Facilitator | Best Practice Community Engagement across the Research Cycle – Connection before Collection & Developing High Calibre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researchers

Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Narungga man, and Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland, a centre focused on Indigenous health research and home to around 60 staff and 20 PhD students. He is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research.

Professor Sandra Eades
Afternoon Workshop | Developing High Calibre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researchers

Professor Sandra Eades AO, a Noongar woman from Mount Barker, WA, is Deputy Dean (Indigenous) and Professor at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She earned her medical degree in 1990 and became Australia’s first Aboriginal medical doctor awarded a PhD in 2003, researching health determinants among Aboriginal infants.

Stephen Harfield
Morning Workshop | Best Practice Community Engagement across the Research Cycle – Connection before Collection

Stephen Harfield is a Narungga and Ngarrindjeri man from South Australia. He is a public health researcher and epidemiologist. His research focuses on centring the health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and their communities through Indigenous-led research.

Robbie Palm
Morning Workshop | Best Practice Community Engagement across the Research Cycle – Connection before Collection

Robbie Palm is a proud Wakka Wakka man from Cherbourg with connections to Kamilaroi and Bindal Country. He holds a Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Theory and Practice and has years of experience across the men’s health, youth justice and SEWB sectors. He is currently an HDR student at the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. Robbie’s research focuses on young people involved in the youth justice system, with a strong passion for community-led research and the self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and communities.

Associate Professor Kim Morey
Morning Workshop | Best Practice Community Engagement across the Research Cycle – Connection before Collection

Kim Morey is Anmatyerre / Eastern Arrernte woman, with family connections to Central Australia, she has grown up on Kaurna Yerta, where she lives and works. Kim has several years of experience in Aboriginal health and community services, across policy, planning, service development, monitoring, and systems performance, including over 10 years in Aboriginal health research. Kim is the Co-Theme Leader, of the Wardliparingga, Aboriginal Health Equity Theme at SAHMRI, where she leads health systems research, including a focus on chronic disease and Stolen Generations research.

If you have any questions about this event, please email us at members@lowitja.org.au