Social and emotional wellbeing

The Indigenous Women's Wellness Research Program

  1. This article explores the successful use of yarning as a research method within a community-based indigenous women's wellness project.

Cultural connectedness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents

This Project aims to investigate the ways in which the cultural determinants of health and well-being sustained the development of healthy psychosocial resilience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait I

Stories of hope and resilience: Using new media and storytelling to faciliate 'wellness' in Indigenous communities

This project explored how the experience of storytelling using new media can impact on Indigenous people’s sense of wellness.

Racism symposium and development of communication materials

Mibbinbah Project Leader Jack Bulman raised the profile of Mibbinbah at a February 2008 meeting of Indigenous male researchers in Alice Springs, which he helped organise.

Control and empowerment in social determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

In this project, a 10-year collaborative Empowerment Research Program (ERP) was designed to assess the contribution of empowerment to addressing the social determinants of Indigenous health and wel

The Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing

The Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing has been created by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  This ground-breaking new study will ask

Trial of "Strong & Deadly Futures", a computerised, school-based, alcohol and other drug prevention program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students 

Strong & Deadly Futures is a culturally inclusive school-based alcohol and other drug use prevention program that features computerised delivery to enhance engagement, reach and sustainability.

Looking Forward - Moving Forward: Transforming systems to improve mental health and drug and alcohol outcomes for Aboriginal peoples

Despite the clear need for support, Aboriginal people do not access mental health and drug and alcohol services at a level that corresponds with their need.

Building Bridges

Building Bridges (2017-2019) is a three-year participatory action research project being conducted in partnership with the Nyoongar community and three mainstream youth mental health services in Pe

“It’s all about relationships”: The place of boarding schools in promoting and managing health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary school students

In recent years, Australian government policies have promoted access to secondary education through boarding schools for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully termed Indigen