Making better use of existing administrative data

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In this webinar, a panel of experts discussed:

• what we mean when we talk about existing data
• the landscape of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) data in Australia
• accessing and working with existing datasets
• the challenges and opportunities to work with existing datasets
• data custodian and researcher partnerships
• data sovereignty
• principles to guide working with existing data.

Panelists: Sally Mills, Professor Maggie Walter, Dr Betty Luu, Dr Rebecca Buys, Vivian Yue

This webinar will be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the possibilities of working with existing datasets, and for all people working in, and adjacent to, research on domestic, family and sexual violence, including data custodians, policymakers, peak bodies, researchers and funders, to ethically make better use of existing data.

RESOURCES

Research led by panellist, Dr Betty Luu: Analysis of linked longitudinal administrative data on child protection involvement for NSW families with domestic and family violence, alcohol and other drug issues and mental health issues

National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), Framework for governance of Indigenous data: Practical guidance for the Australian Public Service

Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective principles

 

Indigenous methodologies

Disclaimer: ANROWS webinars bring together a diverse range of speakers on a particular topic, informed by the evidence base, lived expertise, and policy and practice knowledge. The views expressed by speakers or other third parties in ANROWS webinars and any subsequent materials are those of the speaker or third party and not, necessarily, of ANROWS.

 

In this webinar, Fiona Cornforth, Professor Juanita Sherwood and Dr Nicole Tujague discussed:

• Power and positionality;
• decolonising methodologies;
• connections and partnerships;
• strengths-based approaches;
• cultural safety.

This webinar will be of interest to anyone involved or interested in research practices, including researchers, funders, practitioners, service providers and data custodians.

RESOURCES

The Lancet Voice (podcast): Spotlight on Research for Health: Excluded voices feat. Fiona Cornforth
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200#podcasts. Listen on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Amazon music

Australian National University, Family and Community Safety Study (FaCtS), “The answers were there before the white man come in” Stories of strength and resilience for responding to violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Dr Shawn Wilson BSc MA PhD, Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

Tyson Yunkaporta & Donna Moodie, Thought Ritual: An Indigenous Data Analysis Method for Research

Prof. Michael Chandler & Christopher E. Lalonde, Transferring Whose Knowledge? Exchanging Whose Best Practices? On Knowing about Indigenous Knowledge and Aboriginal Suicide

John Hallett, Suzanne Held, AKHG McCormick et al. What Touched Your Heart? Collaborative Story Analysis Emerging From an Apsáalooke Cultural Context

Dr Nicole Tujague, (2023) Unearthing the axe heads: Hearing about Indigenous-led Evaluation from Aboriginal survivors of The Stolen Generations (Thesis)

Dr Nicole Tujague’s zoom background is a commission piece done by graphic narrator, Rachel Apelt. The zoom background illustrates Nicole and Kelleigh Ryan’s work at The Seedling Group and their process in writing their book, Cultural Safety in Trauma-informed Practice from a First Nations Perspective: Billabongs of Knowledge.