Sheree Cairney Tammy Abbott Byron Wilson

Steve Quinn

Social and Cultural Indicators from the Interplay Wellbeing Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote Australia

Interplay project – The way we work

2 Abbott T and Cairney S. 2014. Collaboration and Capacity Development through the employment of Aboriginal Community-based Researchers: Examples from the Interplay Project. Journal of Australian Indigenous Studies.

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Interplay Project

Wellbeing = feeling good Interplay = connections

Project Aims • Interplay • Objective measures • Inform policy

Review • Literature • Community Engagement

Interplay Framework • Links science, community & policy

systems • Quantitative & qualitative • Tool for planning, evaluation &

communication

Study Design • Prospective cohort • 4 communities • 2 timepoints/waves • 900 surveys, 20 focus groups

• Nguyen & Cairney (2013) Literature review – working towards a wellbeing framework. CRC-REP • Cairney & Abbott (2014) Aboriginal Wellbeing in a ‘Red Dirt Economy’. Journal of Australian

Indigenous Studies.

Get a picture for different communities

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Interplay Wellbeing Framework – Education

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Each domain has sub-domains

Interplay Wellbeing Framework – Culture

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Each domain has sub-domains

Interplay Wellbeing Framework - Culture

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And a further level of data

Interplay Wellbeing Framework - subdomains

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Interplay Wellbeing Framework – strongest impacts

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Interplay Wellbeing Framework – strongest impacts

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Can be used to understand the relative influence of different contributors

Interplay Wellbeing Framework - interrelationships

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Can also be used to understand interrelationships (interplay)

Role of culture on Education Outcomes

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Role of culture on Education Outcomes

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Aboriginal literacy – the key role of bilingual education

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Interplay Wellbeing Framework

• Dynamic, holistic and multipurpose • Roadmap to inform, drive and monitor change • Provides a tool for knowledge building, evaluation decision making,

planning and communication • Provides objective measures • Strong foundation in both science and community development • Model can be applied for other applications/fields • Can be tailored to address numerous policy goals • Empowers community to have ownership and control in research

process • Give community values and priorities a ‘voice’ to Government

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For further information, please contact: Project Leader contact: sheree.cairney@flinders.edu.au Project Website: www.crc-rep.com/interplay

Thank you