UQ researchers analyse school to prison to hospital pipeline

19 September 2022

Bringing together Indigenous scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds for UQ's Research and Innovation Week 2022, this panel outlined a relational and transdisciplinary approach required to analyse and address the ‘School to Prison to Hospital Pipeline’ and the complicated issue and expectation that Indigenous peoples deserve to lead healthy and prosperous lives in line with the research impact theme: Leading Healthy Lives.

Speakers

Prof Brendan Hokowhitu is Ngāti Pūkenga (Māori) from Aotearoa and is Professor of Indigenous Research in the Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Engagement. 

Prof James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland.

Dr Shea Spierings is a Gaangalu man from Central Queensland. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow investigating COVID-19 health messaging in Indigenous communities, health systems, health governance, and Aboriginal men’s health. 

Dr Mitchell Rom is a postdoctoral researcher interested in Decolonial studies, Education and Health. He earned his doctorate from UQ which focused on the key learning, teaching and policy (APST 1.4 and 2.4) challenges situated in the contemporary Indigenous Australian education space at university.

Presentations in pictures

Photos ©UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health

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