Ensuring research has meaningful impact in remote Aboriginal Communities: The Bigiswun Kid Project and beyond.
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
28-5-2026 3:00 PM
Description
We will describe the novel Aboriginal community-led process employed in the Bigiswun Kid (Kimberley Kriol for adolescent) Project to ensure meaningful immediate and long-term benefits for young people. The Bigiswun Kid Project is a population-based study that followed almost all young people (83%) born in 2002-2003 living in the Fitzroy Valley. It combines interviews from young people and their parents at 7-8 years (the Lililwan ‘little ones’ Project) and 17-18 years with 7 the young people’s linked government data from 0-18 years. Led by Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre, this project support 85 young people to access services and helped secure government funding to implement and pilot a place-based youth-led social and emotional wellbeing service. It also won the 2025 Lowitja Institute Tarrn-doon-nonin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Project Award.
Recommended Citation
Rice, Lauren, "Ensuring research has meaningful impact in remote Aboriginal Communities: The Bigiswun Kid Project and beyond." (2026). Nulungu Research Week. 10.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_researchweek/2026/schedule/10
Ensuring research has meaningful impact in remote Aboriginal Communities: The Bigiswun Kid Project and beyond.
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We will describe the novel Aboriginal community-led process employed in the Bigiswun Kid (Kimberley Kriol for adolescent) Project to ensure meaningful immediate and long-term benefits for young people. The Bigiswun Kid Project is a population-based study that followed almost all young people (83%) born in 2002-2003 living in the Fitzroy Valley. It combines interviews from young people and their parents at 7-8 years (the Lililwan ‘little ones’ Project) and 17-18 years with 7 the young people’s linked government data from 0-18 years. Led by Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre, this project support 85 young people to access services and helped secure government funding to implement and pilot a place-based youth-led social and emotional wellbeing service. It also won the 2025 Lowitja Institute Tarrn-doon-nonin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Project Award.
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Session Facilitator: Assoc Professor Melissa Marshall