Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in ... - Ninti One

4. Participatory Action Research cycles4.1 MethodsThe methods used for the research are described in detail in section 2.2.1. of this report. They followed a cyclicalprocess that began with identifying the topic then doing a survey using questions designed to explore the key issuesand gather relevant information. This was the first cycle. Reflection on the results of the survey enabled a secondcycle to be designed to collect further data on specific aspects of the subject. Methods used were therefore aquestionnaire-based survey for the first cycle and focus groups for the second cycle.5 Ninti OneCommunityResearchersLIP recommendation for Social worker tohelp families get children to school.Researchers to investigate whether thisjob is better done by local people. If so,What training would be appropriate forthe employee to be undertaking?Improving school attendance;Increasing number of local peopleemployed in professional andmanagement roles4.2 Ethics, protocols and consentFor this project Ninti One applied for clearance from the Central Australian Human Research Ethics committee(CAHREC). 4 This permission from CAHREC meant that Ninti One and all the researchers it employed agreed to followrules to make sure their work, their behaviour and their methods were ethical.Additionally, Ninti One introduced community researchers, as part of their employment induction, to ethical practicesunderpinned in the publication Aboriginal Knowledge and Intellectual Property Protocol Community Guide produced byDesert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (DKCRC) and Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi (Orr et al. 2009).4.3 Research project on vehicle safety: Research Cycle 1In order to identify the research topic for Research Cycle One we identified the information in the LIP which related toWurla Nyinta taking a lead role to achieve a Community Action outcome, then triangulated it with the Ntaria BaselineMapping information pertaining to those same areas, and the response of researchers, the cultural advisor and others tothe ways research might be useful, important and relevant to informing the work of Wurla Nyinta in making decisionsfor the community. This led us to identify and discuss several options.4.3.1 Research subjectIssues related to use of vehicles, driver disqualification, drink driving and driver training in the community emerged asthe most important and relevant to the interests of the research team. The idea of a safe driving survey tested positivelywith others such as health, education, police and employment officers.This topic is relevant to a number of COAG targets: Health, Economic Participation, Safe Communities, Governance andLeadership. The LIP includes Safe Driving as an intended outcome (Commonwealth of Australia 2010) in the currentagreement signed on 2 March 2010:4 See Ethics application - Intellectual property (Ntaria and Yuendumu), email to FaHCSIA Wed 2/02/2011 3:51 PM32 Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in Remote Service Delivery at Ntaria