Naomi Sunderland

TL;DR: Improvements over the last several decades have gone a long way toward acknowledging the significant disparities that affect Indigenous people and the role of researchers in addressing this issue, and events that have led to more appropriate research methods in Australia are described.

TL;DR: It is argued that if the self- management movement is to tackle health inequalities (rather than creating new ones), health professionals and policy-makers must examine the potentially damaging assumptions that are inherent in contemporary self-management discourse.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed a series of representations of disability and rehabilitation taken from research and policy settings in Australia and identified the presence or absence of discourses of happiness and joy in the contexts analysed.

TL;DR: The theory, data collection methods, preliminary outcomes, and methodological learnings that will be relevant to researchers who wish to use sensory ethnography or develop deeper understandings of place and health generally are discussed.

TL;DR: This article proposed a framework centred on relationships, reciprocity, reflexivity and representation that can be adapted for future Indigenous service learning partnerships and research, based on existing international literature and data from an Indigenous arts based service learning project conducted in the Northern Territory of Australia.