Date:
June 13, 2014
Time:
12.30 - 1.30pm
Location:
The Kids Research Institute Australia seminar room, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco
Contact:
08 9489 7777
Friday 13 June
Latest in Aboriginal Health Research
By Professor Roz Walker
Associate Professor Roz Walker has been involved in research, evaluation and education with Aboriginal communities building local capacity within both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organisations for thirty years.
Roz is a senior researcher with both the University of Western Australia and The Kids Research Institute Australia and a Principal Investigator on the Institute Faculty. She is a Chief Investigator in the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence Grant. Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing: From Marginalised to Empowered: Transformative Methods for Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing at the Institute.
Roz is a CI on several national ARC Grants and works. Her key areas of interest include developing transformative and decolonising strategies at individual, organisational and community levels as well as promoting system level change. She has worked in Aboriginal education in teaching, curriculum development, academic coordination, research and evaluation. She has extensive experience in translating research into policy and practice.
Roz has taught extensively at undergraduate and graduate levels in Aboriginal community management and development and early years education in remote areas. She has worked with young people and relevant agencies and stakeholders in Hedland, particularly the Hedland Youth Leadership Coalition and the Hedland Youth Stakeholder Action Group, assisting the development of a Youth Charter and Youth Strategy.
Roz was co-editor of the first and second edition of the Working Together book and led the highly effective communication and dissemination strategy of the book. Roz had published widely in Aboriginal maternal and child health and mental health and wellbeing. She has extensive experience in translating research into policy and practice and community-based participatory action research methods and ethics to achieve health related outcomes. Roz is on a number of high level steering committees and national Indigenous networks.