Seminar Series

Series 1, 2010: Indigenous Wellbeing

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Timetable, abstracts and audiovisual recordings of the seminars are also available.

This series will provide a range of seminars around the subject of Indigenous Wellbeing. It will consider conceptual frameworks and philosophies around Wellbeing and will look at its increasing use in the development of government policy and service provision.

What is Wellbeing in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context? Who defines it? Are international frameworks applicable in the Australian context? How are conceptual frameworks about Wellbeing influencing policy and guiding data collection?  What are the key indicators? Do these differ depending on place (i.e. urban or remote)? Are similar frameworks being used overseas? 

These broader questions will be addressed as well as a range of case studies which will consider Wellbeing in a more localized and specific context, such as health provision, caring for country, holistic health service provision, cultural expression, for youth and in the education sector.

Series co-ordinators: Cressida Fforde, Jill Guthrie, Jeanine Leane.

Venue: Mabo Room, AIATSIS Building, Acton Peninsula, Canberra

Time: Monday lunchtimes 12.30-2pm

Enquiries: Cressida Fforde (cressida.fforde@aiatsis.gov.au or 02 6261 4221)

If you are unable to attend the seminars in person, you can download audio recordings which are made available shortly after each seminar.

Please note:  If you would like to hook into the seminars via video-conference, please contact Cressida Fforde.

Past Series are available here.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by speakers during the AIATSIS Seminar Series do not necessarily reflect those of AIATSIS, and the Institute accepts no responsibility for them.