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Item An Australian national survey of First Nations careers in health services.(2024-10-18) Nathan S.; Meyer L.; Joseph T.; Blignault I.; Bailey J.; Demasi K.; Newman J.; Briggs N.; Williams M.; Lew Fatt E.A strong First Nations health workforce is necessary to meet community needs, health rights, and health equity. This paper reports the findings from a national survey of Australia's First Nations people employed in health services to identify enablers and barriers to career development, including variations by geographic location and organisation type. A cross-sectional online survey was undertaken across professions, roles, and jurisdictions. The survey was developed collaboratively by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal academics and Aboriginal leaders. To recruit participants, the survey was promoted by key professional organisations, First Nations peak bodies and affiliates, and national forums. In addition to descriptive statistics, logistic regression was used to identify predictors of satisfaction with career development and whether this varied by geographic location or organisation type. Of the 332 participants currently employed in health services, 50% worked in regional and remote areas and 15% in Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) with the remainder in government and private health services. All enablers identified were associated with satisfaction with career development and did not vary by location or organisation type. "Racism from colleagues"and "lack of cultural awareness,""not feeling supported by their manager,""not having role models or mentors,"and "inflexible human resource policies"predicted lower satisfaction with career development only for those employed in government/other services. First Nations people leading career development were strongly supported. The implications for all workplaces are that offering even a few career development opportunities, together with supporting leadership by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, can make a major difference to satisfaction and retention. Concurrently, attention should be given to building managerial cultural capabilities and skills in supporting First Nations' staff career development, building cultural safety, providing formal mentors and addressing discriminatory and inflexible human resources policies. Copyright © 2023 S. Nathan et al.Item Assessing research impact: Australian research council criteria and the case of family wellbeing research.(2019-08-21) Tsey K.; Onnis L.-A.; Whiteside M.; McCalman J.; Williams M.; Heyeres M.; Lui S.M.C.; Klieve H.; Cadet-James Y.; Baird L.; Brown C.; Watkin Lui F.; Grainger D.; Gabriel Z.; Millgate N.; Cheniart B.; Hunter T.; Liu H.-B.; Yinghong Y.; Yan L.; Lovett R.; Chong A.; Kinchin I.Researchers worldwide are increasingly reporting the societal impact of their research as part of national research productivity assessments. However, the challenges they encounter in developing their impact case studies against specified government assessment criteria and how pitfalls can be mitigated are not reported. This paper examines the key steps taken to develop an Aboriginal Family Wellbeing (FWB) empowerment research impact case study in the context of an Australian Research Council (ARC) pilot research impact assessment exercise and the challenges involved in applying the ARC criteria. The requirement that researchers demonstrate how their institutions support them to conduct impactful research has the potential to create supportive environments for researchers to be more responsive to the needs of users outside academia. However, the 15-year reference period for the associated research underpinning the reported impact and the focus on researcher's current institutional affiliation constitute potential constraints to demonstrating the true impact of research. For researchers working with Indigenous people, relationships that build over long periods of time, irrespective of university affiliation, are critical to conducting impactful research. A more open-ended time-frame, with no institutional restrictions for the 'associated research' provides the best opportunity to demonstrate the true benefits of research not only for Indigenous people but for Australian society more broadly.Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Item Converging crises: public interest journalism, the pandemic and public health.(2021-01-12) Sweet M.A.; Williams M.; Armstrong R.; Mohamed J.; Finlay S.M.; Coopes A.Public interest journalism has faced a longstanding funding crisis, cutbacks of staff and resources, and closures of newsrooms. This crisis is a critical public health concern, and it has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the pandemic has highlighted the important roles played by public interest journalism - including in addressing health equity issues. The pandemic has also highlighted the need to address structural weaknesses in the media industry, with concentration of media ownership and underfunding of public broadcasters leading to many communities being under-served and under-represented. The public health sector can make important contributions to developing and sustaining a robust, public interest journalism sector. Public health professionals and organisations can advocate for policy reform to support public interest journalism, and incorporate consideration of public interest journalism into advocacy, education, research and practice. Copyright © 2020 Sweet et al.Item Who is speaking for us? Identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholarship in health research.(2021-10-21) Mohamed J.; Matthews V.; Bainbridge R.; Williams M.