Family history

Caring for Community

A multi-disciplinary team of UOW researchers worked with local Indigenous leaders to identify community research priorities and develop a baseline profile of Aboriginal health, social determinants

Doing the hard yards': Carer and provider focus group perspectives of accessing Aboriginal childhood disability services

Despite a high prevalence of disability, Aboriginal Australians access disability services in Australia less than non-Aboriginal Australians with a disability.

It's more than just having a baby' women's experiences of a maternity service for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families

The Malabar Community Midwifery Link Service was developed to meet the needs of women from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island in suburban Sydney, Australia.

Social and Cultural Resilience and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal Mothers in Prison

Despite an expanding female prisoner population, research and policy initiatives centred on the health and other needs of female prisoners have been slow to respond 3.

Cairns South Collective Impact Project

In late 2016 Cairns South and Yarrabah Communities for Children Facilitating Partner kick-started a CI project (the ‘Project’) within Cairns South.

The Yawuru Knowing Our Community (YKC) Household Survey

The YKC survey was conducted between April and July of 2011. It engaged a total of 997 Indigenous households in private dwellings in the Broome area.

The Family Wellbeing Program: Empowerment research

The Family Wellbeing Program was developed in the early 1990s by a group of Indigenous leaders in Adelaide who had been affected by the Stolen Generations.