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

What ‘gaps’ in knowledge are there?What kind of research method would be best to achieve the outcome required?2. Plan, prepare Craft the research question/s Design the participant information about who commissioned the research, who is undertaking it, whothe researchers are. Draft Informed Consent to include the ethical and privacy statement, permission to record audio ortake photos and a no-obligation statement for participants’ choice to be involved. Prepare the work plan for applying the research instrument: who will do what, where, when, how?3. Do itAdminister the informed consent and research instrument to participantsMonitor the process so that it remains exactly the same with each application of the instrumentKeep tally of demography and other important goalsRegularly discuss in the team how it’s going, what it’s like, what’s working well, what’s hard, etc.4. Review, reflect Collate the research data Extract the trends and findings Make some analysis of what the research indicates Report the findings back to Wurla Nyinta Critically review the process, language, questions, and other operational aspects to extract learningand best practice guidelines for the next cycle.4.3.3 Research instrumentThe decision to use a survey instrument emerged from looking at various examples of research that involved hownumerical data can tell a research story.Because there are many survey instruments applied to Aboriginal communities, this was also an opportunity to engagedifferently with the experience of being a respondent.Most importantly, it provided an opportunity to rethink how a survey could be phrased so that people with English as asecond language could better understand it. Then the researchers used their multilingual skills and translated thequestions from simple English into Arrarnta.The final survey instrument evolved from several workshops, practices and re-writes. The instrument was applied to ademographic that represented 20% of the target age range of 18–60 year olds, based on Census data from 2006.Ntaria Driving Survey: age groupsTarget to surveyAge(=20% of Ntaria population as atCensus 2006)Actual numberssurveyedVariance18–25 28 29 126–30 17 15 -231–35 16 18 236–45 22 23 146–60 20 18 -2Total 103 10334 Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in Remote Service Delivery at Ntaria