Last month CRE-STRIDE Investigators, researchers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Committee members, Seed Project leads and Scholarship awardees met on the Gadigal Lands of the Eora Nation for a final gathering before the five-year program wraps-up.
STRIDE is a Centre for Research Excellence based at UCRH which has undertaken a range of quality improvement and collaborative implementation research to strengthen primary healthcare and its connections with broader systems that impact on health and wellbeing. It was funded through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
The team met the iconic National Centre of Indigenous Excellence in the heart of Redfern and used the opportunity to reflect and share knowledge and wisdom. In particular, a focus was to look back at key findings from the STRIDE developmental evaluation, and to undertake a participatory knowledge synthesis process to of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications which have come out of the collaboration. Those evaluation findings and knowledge synthesis outcomes will be shared over coming months.
The gathering also included presentations from:
- Professor Daryle Rigney, Aunty Yvonne Cadet-James and Janine Gertz, who shared Ngarrindjeri and Gugu Badhun Nation Building visions, values and stories, and the importance of choice, participation and control in Nation Building and self-determination;
- Aunty Yvonne, Janya McCalman and Alex van Beek who spoke about their insights from the SEWB Theory of Change and their reimagining of researcher wellbeing;
- Seed-funded project leads Brooke Spaeth (Enhancing Point of Care Testing), Meg Williams (Mibbinbah- Be the Best You Can Be), Danni Cameron (Strengthening SEWB in Community), Yvonne Hornby-Turner (Development and Testing of An Audit Tool in Dementia Care), as well as PhD project updates from Jane Linton (Culturally Appropriate Model of Care for Aboriginal people with osteoarthritis), Muriel Wymarra (Professional Healing in Torres Strait Islander Culture) and Amba-Rose Atkinson (How Does Caring for Country Improve Health Outcomes).
While this was the STRIDE gathering, a retrospective video celebrating the legacy STRIDE will leave is being produced and will be released on the UCRH website later in 2024.
