Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in ... - Ninti One
Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in ... - Ninti One 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
Ada Lechleitner surveying staff at the Ntaria Safe house4.3.4 Research methodThe surveys were undertaken over two weeks, with a revisit in the third week to pick up a number of the target groupswhere shortfall emerged after collation was complete.We made the following observations about the interactions between researchers and respondents:Community researchers elicited honest responses to questions that might otherwise not have been attempted– such as driving and drinkingThe respondents were positive about participating; at one stage they were lining up around the vehicle to havea turn at the surveyOnce the researchers explained in plain language what the research was to contribute to the LIP and how thatmight happen everyone agreed to participate, including unlicensed drivers.Collating the surveys was challenging. Paper surveys and collation sheets were checked and re-checked, and onehighlight was mastering the formula to create percentages from numbers. The calculators were easy to use, but theliteracy and numeracy levels used to calculate and collate by hand restricted the number of researchers activelyengaged in this process.Those who had been involved in the process of development and delivery were best able to ‘make sense’ of the maths.Those who came into the process at a later point really struggled to get the concept until the results gave evidence.Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in Remote Service Delivery at Ntaria 35
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- Page 3 and 4: ContentsGlossary ..................
- Page 5 and 6: GlossaryUseful terms to understand
- Page 7 and 8: Executive summaryThis final project
- Page 9 and 10: 1. IntroductionThis section introdu
- Page 11 and 12: engage Ntaria residents in doing co
- Page 13 and 14: Carole RaggettCommunity ResearcherJ
- Page 15 and 16: Describe who commissioned the resea
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- Page 19 and 20: Action Inquiries only RecruitmentNi
- Page 21 and 22: Physical work environment.The most
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- Page 31 and 32: data from a relatively small popula
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- Page 55 and 56: 4.5 Background to the Wurla Nyinta
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- Page 63 and 64: 4.6.4 Data collected1. Unta antjana
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- Page 67 and 68: 6. Ira tjina ungkwanga (Are you rel
- Page 69 and 70: 8. Unta etna-akela ultha purtala us
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Ada Lechleitner survey<strong>in</strong>g staff at the Ntaria Safe house4.3.4 <strong>Research</strong> methodThe surveys were undertaken over two weeks, with a revisit <strong>in</strong> the third week to pick up a number of the target groupswhere shortfall emerged after collation was complete.We made the follow<strong>in</strong>g observations about the <strong>in</strong>teractions between researchers and respondents:<strong>Community</strong> researchers elicited honest responses to questions that might otherwise not have been attempted– such as driv<strong>in</strong>g and dr<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>gThe respondents were positive about participat<strong>in</strong>g; at one stage they were l<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g up around the vehicle to havea turn at the surveyOnce the researchers expla<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> pla<strong>in</strong> language what the research was to contribute to the LIP and how thatmight happen everyone agreed to participate, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g unlicensed drivers.Collat<strong>in</strong>g the surveys was challeng<strong>in</strong>g. Paper surveys and collation sheets were checked and re-checked, and onehighlight was master<strong>in</strong>g the formula to create percentages from numbers. The calculators were easy to use, but theliteracy and numeracy levels used to calculate and collate by hand restricted the number of researchers activelyengaged <strong>in</strong> this process.Those who had been <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> the process of development and delivery were best able to ‘make sense’ of the maths.Those who came <strong>in</strong>to the process at a later po<strong>in</strong>t really struggled to get the concept until the results gave evidence.<strong>F<strong>in</strong>al</strong> <strong>Report</strong>: <strong>Strengthen<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Research</strong> <strong>in</strong> Remote Service Delivery at Ntaria 35
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