Aboriginal Community Researchers: promoting meaningful research outcomes in remote Aboriginal communities
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Tammy Abbott and Lena Taylor presented to the National Rural Health Conference in Darwin, May 2015
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Aboriginal Community Researchers: promoting meaningful research outcomes in remote Aboriginal communities
- 1. Aboriginal Community Researchers: promoting meaningful research outcomes in remote Aboriginal communities Tammy Abbott, Senior Research Officer Lena Taylor, Aboriginal Community Researcher 13th National Rural Health Conference Darwin, May 2015
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- 4. Participatory Action Research 4 CHANGE Adapted from: jareddonovan.com/blog/on/research/
- 5. 5 Aboriginal Community Researcher Program A network of nearly 200 Aboriginal Community Researchers working in over 60 communities
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- 13. Recommendations for policy and program makers: • Ensure that policies and program guidelines require local Aboriginal people to be involved in co-designing and delivering research and other projects. • Ensure that programs recognize the investment in time and funds required for local Aboriginal people to co-design and participate in delivering projects 13
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Editor's Notes
- Who is Ninti One? Ninti One is a national not-for-profit company, headquartered in Alice Springs that builds opportunities for people in remote Australia through research, innovation and community development. We manage the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, the intellectual property arising from CRC-REP and the former Desert Knowledge CRC, and a portfolio of other projects
- Ninti One has been around for over 10 years and operates the Current CRC for Remote Economic Participation and previously operated the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre. Our Chairman is Dr Tom Calma AO, former Social Justice Commissioner and we have a diverse group of Aboriginal people employed full-time and casually across Australia.
- Ninti One works with people and organisations across remote Australia. We specialise in participatory action research as we believe that research and action must be done ‘with’ people and not ‘on’ or ‘for’ people. Inquiry based on PAR principles makes sense of the world through collective efforts to transform it, as opposed to simply observing and studying human behaviour and people’s views. The aim is meaningful change. We particularly apply PAR to our work in remote Australia, but it is just as useful in other contexts.
- A large part of Ninti One’s research employs local community members as community researchers. The reason is simple. The results of the research are better because local people are more informed and have an in‐depth understanding of history, community, language and culture. Trained Aboriginal Community Researchers make an essential contribution to research in several ways.
- They use a range of skills, Aboriginal language and literacies, and contribute to all phases of the research including the design and fieldwork in their communities.
- They are skilled in undertaking all aspects of high quality research including face‐to‐face surveys, focus groups, data collection, cultural analysis and reporting.
- They provide unique insights and understandings into local communities in remote Australia.
- They are proud to be undertaking research work which will benefit people living and working in remote Australia.
- Having family connections also assists the process, it helps build the relationship between Ninti One staff and local community members.
- Working together collaboratively is very important and what we practice best.
- Ensuring that people are comfortable in their settings in order to collect valued information is important.
- Conference organisers asked us to make recommendations for policy and program makers. Our experience says: Ensure that policies and program guidelines require local Aboriginal people to be involved in co-designing and delivering research and other projects. Ensure that programs recognize the investment in time and funds required for local Aboriginal people to co-design and participate in delivering projects