Indigenous Health Strider's Scoop
Issue #10
February 2021
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Wow, it's hard to believe we are already looking at the end of February and into March, what a busy start to the New Year. I hope that you are all going well.
The STRIDE team is ready to ramp up some of its programs this year, and are busy applying for grants and looking for people & organisations that we can partner with to leverage the best for our project and mobs through the term of the CRE-STRIDE.
We have some exciting things planned including Virtual Reality programs, continuing our monthly reciprocal learning webinars (with the first session planned for next week, Thursday 4th March, with Gamilaroi woman and dietician/nutritionist Tracy Hardy - see below for more info), and continuing and expanding our research programs. We are planning to focus a few of our monthly webinars on Indigenous knowledge, and invite anyone that may want to share ideas or concepts or research to contact me to talk about this. We are looking forward to exploring some more research translation, and a bit more of that poetry as the year progresses too!
The new website should be up and published by the end of March, and our membership documents will be available for those who want to formalise their involvement with STRIDE. New positions with our partner universities and STRIDE Central are currently being advertised (or plan to be advertised in the next few months) and our Scholarship program is still open.
We are so lucky to have such a committed and awesome team and to be working with some inspiring communities. We are always thankful to the leadership and hard work of elders past that made it possible for us to be here, driving positive change and being able to have a voice.
Many thanks,
Roxanne Smith
STRIDE Program Manager
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STRIDE Research Capacity Strengthening Session:
Incorporating native foods for better nutrition and health outcomes
Thursday 4th March
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We are very pleased to announce our first Research Capacity Strengthening Webinar for 2021!
Please join us on Thursday, 4th March (3pm to 4pm AEDT) as Gamilaroi woman and dietician/nutritionist Tracy Hardy presents 'Incorporating native foods for better nutrition and health outcomes: "Eating with Deep Listening: Healthy eating to keep our minds, bodies, spirits and cultures strong".
The webinar will cover:
- Old ways of eating and living
- Comparing traditional and modern day nutrition
- The mind, gut and spirit connection
- How we can model old ways of eating and living in modern times
Click on the link below for more info, and to register. We hope to see many of you there!
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STRIDE Research Program 3 - Social and Emotional Wellbeing
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Prof Roxanne Bainbridge and Dr Sandy Campbell have stepped back as lead members of Research program 3 due to competing work commitments – STRIDE thanks them for their guidance of the preliminary stages of the SEWB program of research.
We also thank Prof Yvonne Cadet-James and Candace Angelo for agreeing to take on the lead role going forward. They join A/Prof Deb Askew and Prof Janya McCalman in leading the SEWB program of work.
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow
STRIDE has provided funding to CQUniversity for a part-time post doctoral research fellow to coordinate and add value to the SEWB Research Program. We are happy to report that Dr Vicki Saunders has accepted the position and will start on 18th April, 2021, based at CQUniversity in Townsville. Vicki will also join the STRIDE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Committee.
Vicki is a Gungarri woman with connections to the Maranoa region of Southern Central Queensland. She has a background in psychology and public health research. Her current research focus includes creative arts informed Indigenist research methodologies and it’s connections to SEWB, with a particular focus on empowerment, health workforce and research capacity building, and culturally safe care. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINAM) and was previously a postdoctoral research fellow within the Griffith Criminology Institute and Indigenous Research Unit in the Gold Coast, and the Collaborative Research in Empowerment and Wellbeing (CREW) team in Far North Queensland. Needless to say, Vicki brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and networks to the role.
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Dr Vicki Saunders - STRIDE / CQU Post-doctoral Research Fellow
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Indigenous Youth Research Officer
CQUniversity has also recruited Nicole Caelli as an Indigenous Youth Research Officer to contribute to and Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship focussed on primary healthcare supports and services for the wellbeing and mental health of Indigenous youth through COVID. Nicole brings experience in youth work, facilitation, communication and organisational skills, strong links with the youth empowerment group DIYDG (Deadly Inspiring Youth Doing Good) and keen enthusiasm. Nicole will also link with the broader STRIDE SEWB program of work.
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Members of DIYDG. Nicole Caelli - standing middle row, far left
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SEWB Strategic Planning Workshop
A Research Program 3 strategic planning workshop will be coordinated once Vicki comes on board. If you are interested in engaging with the SEWB research by participating in this workshop, please contact Kerryn. Date will be late April/early May – to be confirmed.
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STRIDE joint submission for the NHMRC Public Call for Submissions: Research Priority Areas in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
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We are pleased to advise that STRIDE submitted a joint submission to the recent NHMRC Public Call for Submissions: Research Priority Areas in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
The research priority we nominated was a Targeted Call for Research dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-drive participatory action research that facilitates sustainable partnerships and health system improvements, leading to development of innovative models, systematic applications and approaches to rigorously measuring its impact on health outcomes.
Thanks to everyone who provided input into the submission. We will provide an update once we've heard a response from the NHMRC.
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Seed Funding Opportunities
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STRIDE is offering small project grants to stimulate the development of new projects related to STRIDE priorities.
These will be used to foster continued growth of QI research and develop new collaborations that attend to emerging research needs. This is intended as “seed” funding to help build new projects and enable leverage into something more substantial.
Applications are open to any organisation that is able to put forward a bold idea, or strengthen and build on existing research.
For guidelines and eligibility, as well as the application form, see the below link.
For more information, please contact STRIDE Project Manager, Roxanne Smith.
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Scholarship Opportunities
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STRIDE is offering scholarships to support honours, Masters of Research and PhD candidates.
Our preference is to work with potential candidates to identify areas of common interest that fall within STRIDE strategic aims:
- Indigenous research methodologies and leadership;
- Strengthening QI processes within primary health care systems and enhancing community linkages; and
- Extending QI processes across sectors to promote health and wellbeing and strengthen social and cultural determinants of health.
We offer a number of specific ideas below:
- Evaluation of STRIDE (for example: developmental, process evaluation;
- Understanding quality improvement facilitation and its applications;
- Developing and implementing a systems assessment tool for managers in Indigenous primary care;
- Testing and refining new implementation processes and tools to overcome barriers to improvement and efficacy of quality improvement approaches;
- Systems thinking approaches to quality improvement and/or a research collaboration;
- Facilitating and generating a synthesis of knowledge across multiple projects, operating under STRIDE;
- Developing methods for strengthening community input into improving quality improvement processes.
Expressions of Interest to apply for this great opportunity are now open. For more information, click on the link below.
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STRIDE / UTS Research Associate/Research Fellow (Identified)
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is recruiting a Research Associate/Research Fellow to work on STRIDE.
The Indigenous Research Associate/Fellow will work with the STRIDE (Quality Improvement in Health Promotion) research team and key collaborators to progress our vision and research program to extend QI processes and collaborations across sectors to promote health and prevent chronic disease. The role will support the development of new grant ideas; publication of research and conference presentations and contribute to teaching (maximum 25% load) as required.
Applications close 4th March
read more >>
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MRFF – IHR Fund – Indigenous Health Research Grant Opportunity
Opportunities close 10th March
read more >>
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Bailie, J., Laycock, A., Conte, P., Matthews, V., Peiris, D., Bailie, R,, Abimbola, S., Passey, M., Cunningham, F., Harkin, K., Bainbridge. R. Principles guiding ethical research in a collaboration to strengthen Indigenous primary healthcare in Australia: learning from experience. BMJ Global Health, 2021;6:e003852.
Denny-Smith, G., Sunindijo, R., Loosemore, M., Williams, M., Piggott, L. How construction employment can create social value and assist recovery from COVID-19. Sustainability. 2021; 13(2):988. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020988
Ramanathan, S., Larkins, S., Carlisle, K., Turner, N., Bailie, R., Thompson, S., Bainbridge, R., Deeming, S., Searles, A. What was the impact of a participatory research project in Australian Indigenous primary healthcare services? Applying a comprehensive framework for assessing translational health research to Lessons for the Best. BMJ Open. 2021, Feb 23; 11(2):e040749. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040749.
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Image: LEAP Project, JCU. Artwork by Noela Jimarin
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LEAP Update No. 6
Read the latest update from the LEAP (Leveraging Effective Ambulatory Practices study) Project here.
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Image: BMJ
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Increasing the impact of health research through co-production of knowledge: a new special collection of the BMJ
The BMJ collection, 'Increasing the Impact of Health Research through Co-production of Knowledge' provide an overview of the evolution, potential, influence, learning and challenges in co-producing evidence to inform decision making in health policy and practice, and points to the core principles which should underpin it. These articles are part of a series proposed by the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and commissioned by BMJ. Read more here.
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Image: Koori Mail
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Megan Williams poem
Congratulations to Associate Professor and STRIDE Chief Investigator Dr Megan Williams for her poem, Good Grief, published in the Koori Mail on 13th January 2021.
Megan wrote the poem during the STRIDE Zoom Room Session, 'Set the Darkness Echoing: Using poetry and storytelling as listening tools'. Congratulations to Meg for this poignant piece.
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Image: WHO
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WHO Webinar: Co-producing knowledge for stronger health systems (recording available)
A recording of the WHO webinar, 'Co-producing knowledge for stronger health systems', presented on 16th February, is now available here.
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