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Indigenous Memoir and Cultural Memory
Examining the role of Indigenous memoir in re-negoitating cultural identities and increasing solidarity during the 1980s when Aboriginal Australians experienced setbacks in their quest for the restoration of their land rights.
Researcher: Helen Fordham
Indigenous Australians and the Media
This research focused upon the role of the media in the production and circulation of stereotypes that holds racism in place.
Researcher: Helen Fordham
Assessment of quality in specialist palliative care service delivery for Indigenous Australians
Investigating equity of quality-of-care indicators among Indigenous compared with non-Indigenous patients with a life-limiting illness, who were provided care by palliative care services participating in the national Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC).
Researcher: John Woods
Corporate Reconciliation Action Plan Use
Examining the use of Reconciliation Action Plans within the Australian resources sector over the past decade.
Researcher: John Schepis
Let's CHAT: Community Health Approaches to Dementia in Indigenous Communities
This co-designed project looks to improve community health approaches to dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The project is working with 12 Aboriginal community controlled health services across Australia to improve the detection of cognitive impairment and dementia, dementia care and brain health in primary care.
Researcher: Leon Flicker et al
Human Services Data Project
Developing key data to assist in the evaluation of demand, delivery and outcomes in the areas of aged care, disability services and general human services at all levels.
Researcher: David Gilchrist
Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages
This project aims to build Nyingarn, an online platform of digital text versions of early Australian Indigenous language manuscripts with images of the original documents. There are over a thousand such documents that are foundational to understanding Australia's languages, and Nyingarn makes textual versions, accessions, and navigates such documents, with a means for adding more in future. Expected outcomes of this project are accessible sources useful for educational materials, and for understanding the local language, its history, and its relationship to other languages. Nyingarn will provide cutting-edge methods for ingesting, analysing, and presenting these historical materials, both for research and for the general public.
Recirculating Indigenous traveling songs
This project aims to develop new understandings of how unrestricted Indigenous traveling songs have spread across vast geographic and linguistic boundaries in Australia, investigating ways these songs can contribute to greater social connectedness today. It intends to energise collaborative networks across Indigenous communities, language centres, and holding institutions around the world.