Wright Michael, Culbong Tiana, Webb Michelle, Sibosado Amanda, Jones Tanya, Guima Chinen Tilsa, O'Connell Margaret
School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
Health Sociol Rev. 2023 Mar;32(1):110-127. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2023.2173017. Epub 2023 Mar 13.
Aboriginal participatory action research (APAR) has an ethical focus that corrects the imbalances of colonisation through participation and shared decision-making to position people, place, and intention at the centre of research. APAR supports researchers to respond to the community's local rhythms and culture. APAR supports researchers to respond to the community's local rhythms and culture. First Nations scholars and their allies do this in a way that decolonises mainstream approaches in research to disrupt its cherished ideals and endeavours. How these knowledges are co-created and translated is also critically scrutinised. We are a team of intercultural researchers working with community and mainstream health service providers to improve service access, responsiveness, and Aboriginal client outcomes. Our article begins with an overview of the APAR literature and pays homage to the decolonising scholarship that champions Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing. We present a research program where Aboriginal Elders, as cultural guides, hold the research through storying and cultural experiences that have deepened relationships between services and the local Aboriginal community. We conclude with implications of a community-led engagement framework underpinned by a relational methodology that reflects the nuances of knowledge translation through a co-creation of new knowledge and knowledge exchange.
原住民参与式行动研究（APAR）具有伦理重点，即通过参与和共同决策来纠正殖民化的不平衡，将人、地点和意图置于研究的中心。APAR支持研究人员回应社区的当地节奏和文化。第一民族学者及其盟友以一种使研究中的主流方法非殖民化的方式来做到这一点，以扰乱其珍视的理想和努力。这些知识如何共同创造和转化也受到严格审视。我们是一个跨文化研究团队，与社区和主流医疗服务提供者合作，以改善服务可及性、响应能力和原住民客户的成果。我们的文章首先概述了APAR文献，并向倡导原住民认知、存在和行为方式的非殖民化学术研究致敬。我们展示了一个研究项目，在该项目中，原住民长老作为文化向导，通过讲述故事和文化体验来主导研究，这些故事和文化体验加深了服务机构与当地原住民社区之间的关系。我们以一个由关系方法论支撑的社区主导参与框架的影响作为结论，该方法论通过新知识的共同创造和知识交流反映了知识转化的细微差别。
