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- Title
The research dance: university and community research collaborations at Yarrabah, North Queensland, Australia.
- Authors
Mayo, Kevin; Tsey, Komla
- Abstract
This article reflects upon collaborative research relationships between indigenous communities and universities in social health and empowerment programmes. This article is focused on Family Well Being programme and Indigenous Men's Support Groups conducted over the last decade at Yarrabah in northern Queensland. These programmes have incorporated a process whereby the community has set research agendas, local researchers have been employed, and university researchers have facilitated the development of appropriate programmes, the capacity of the community to manage these, and programme evaluation. This article draws upon reflective data derived from intensive group workshops and semistructured, in-depth interviews with both community and university-based researchers conducted in late 2006 and early 2007. These workshops and interviews describe, often in the words of participants, the experiences, challenges and strategies for research collaborations. This article recommends positive strategies for successful partnerships and outlines some challenges faced by both community and university researchers in programmes. The findings of the interviews and workshops are thematically discussed in relation to international literature on collaborative research.
- Subjects
NORTH Queensland (Qld.); QUEENSLAND; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY involvement; SELF-efficacy; MEDICAL sciences; SOCIAL sciences; PUBLIC health; QUALITATIVE research
- Publication
Health & Social Care in the Community, 2009, Vol 17, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
0966-0410
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2524.2008.00805.x