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Article: Putting the users of research in the driver's seat: the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health's new approach to research development.
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- Australian Aboriginal Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Abstract: Research has a bad name in many Aboriginal communities. There is an often quoted phrase that 'Aboriginal people are the most researched in the world', and that researchers take from communities in order to gain academic qualifications with little benefit returned to Aboriginal peoples. But, like most things, research can be both 'good' and 'bad'. Increasingly, since the 1980s, Aboriginal peoples have been asserting their right to control research. Often this control has been applied through ethics processes, or through the use of Indigenous methodologies.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health represents a further development in the ...