A/Prof Felecia Watkin ~ Associate Professor, Head of Indigenous Teaching Program
Indigenous Education & Research Centre
- About
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- Teaching
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Dr Felecia Watkin Lui is a Torres Strait Islander woman with giz from Erub, Mabuiag and Badu. She is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Indigenous Education and Research Centre and Thematic Convenor of Indigenous Futures for the Cairns Institute, JCU.
She graduated with a PhD from JCU in 2010. Her doctoral research was the first intergenerational study examining cultural and political identity for Islanders living outside the Torres Strait. Dr Watkin Lui's doctoral research on the Torres Strait Diaspora led to an interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in environmental science and economics and ground breaking work on the sharing of marine bush meat in Indigenous communities. Her focus on collaborative community projects piqued her interest in exploring issues of engagement, impact and benefit, and the role of Indigenous leadership in research uptake. Dr Watkin Lui was Principal Investigator on an ARC Indigenous Discovery Project (2014-17) which focused on research impact and benefit in Indigenous research contexts.
Dr Watkin Lui was project leader of Meriba buay - ngalpan wakaythoemamay (We come together to share our thinking): Evaluating a Community of Practice for Torres Strait Islander Health and Well-being funded by the Lowitja Institute. Further details about the project can be found at https://www.lowitja.org.au/page/research/research-categories/cultural-and-social-determinants/social-determinants-of-health/projects/meriba-buay
She is currently the lead researcher for ARC Indigenous Discovery IN190100061, titled Knowledge Integration for Torres Strait Sustainability with CIs Dr Sanchia Shibasaki (Lowitja Institute), Dr Cass Hunter (CSIRO), Prof Natalie Stoeckl (JCU) and Prof Stewart Lockie (JCU). This project aims to investigate how Torres Strait Islanders use context-specific local knowledge and research evidence to address environmental sustainability challenges. The Torres Strait is experiencing significant threats to its environment and there is a need to use research to identify strategies that can meet these challenges. However, at present significiant barriers exist in the translation of current research knowledge to the Torres Strait context. The project will examine how knowledge is constructed (culturally) and develop new methods to allow research findings to be integrated into Torres Strait knowledge. This project will support the empowerment of Torres Strait Islander people to seek the research information that is most useful for their decision-making.
- Publications
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These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.
- Journal Articles
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- Shibasaki S, Harvey A, Ah Mat L and Watkin Lui F (2022) A Research Participant and End-User Approach to Research Collaboration and Co-Development in the Torres Strait. International Journal of Community and Social Development, 4 (4). pp. 375-395
- Grainger D, Watkin-Lui F and Cheer K (2021) The value of informed agency for Torres Strait climate change. Ecological Economics, 180.
- Kiatkoski Kim M, Watkin Lui F, Ah Mat L, Cadet-James Y, Bainbridge R and McCalman J (2021) Indigenous leadership in research in Australia. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 43 (4).
- Larson S, Stoeckl N, Jarvis D, Addison J, Grainger D, Watkin Lui F, Walalakoo Aboriginal Corporation , Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC , Ewamian Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC and Yanunijarra Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (2020) Indigenous land and sea management programs (ILSMPs) enhance the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (1).
- Shibasaki S, Sibthorpe B, Watkin Lui F, Harvey A, Grainger D, Hunter C and Tsey K (2019) Flipping the researcher knowledge translation perspective on knowledge use: a scoping study. Alternative: an international journal of Indigenous peoples, 15 (3). pp. 271-280
- Tsey K, Onnis L, Whiteside M, McCalman J, Williams M, Heyeres M, Lui S, Klieve H, Cadet-James Y, Baird L, Brown C, Watkin Lui F, Grainger D, Gabriel Z, Millgate N, Cheniart B, Hunter T, Liu H, Yang Y, Yan L, Lovett R, Chong A and Kinchin I (2019) Assessing research impact: Australian Research Council criteria and the case of Family Wellbeing research. Evaluation and Program Planning, 73. pp. 176-186
- Delisle A, Kiatkoski Kim M, Stoeckl N, Watkin Lui F and Marsh H (2018) The socio-cultural benefits and costs of the traditional hunting of dugongs Dugong dugon and green turtles Chelonia mydas in Torres Strait, Australia. Oryx, 52 (2). pp. 250-261
- Geia L, Broadfield K, Grainger D, Day A and Watkin-Lui F (2018) Adolescent and young adult substance use in Australian Indigenous communities: a systematic review of demand control program outcomes. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 42 (3). pp. 254-261
- Jarvis D, Stoeckl N, Addison J, Larson S, Hill R, Pert P and Watkin Lui F (2018) Are Indigenous land and sea management programs a pathway to Indigenous economic independence? The Rangeland Journal, 40 (4). pp. 415-429
- Kinchin I, McCalman J, Bainbridge R, Tsey K and Lui F (2017) Does Indigenous health research have impact? A systematic review of reviews. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16. pp. 1-16
- Tsey K, Lawson K, Kinchin I, Bainbridge R, McCalman J, Watkin F, Cadet-James Y and Rossetto A (2016) Evaluating research impact: the development of a 'RESEARCH for IMPACT' TOOL. Frontiers in Public Health, 4.
- Watkin Lui F, Stoeckl N, Delisle A, Kiatkoski-Kim M and Marsh H (2016) Motivations for sharing bushmeat with an urban diaspora in indigenous Australia. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 21 (4). pp. 345-360
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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 27+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Felecia Watkin from 2012 onwards.
- Current Funding
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Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.
Lowitja Institute-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC - Seeding Grant 2021
Feeling Informed, Connected, Supported and Heard: Advocacy for aged care in the Torres Strait
- Indicative Funding
- $139,416 over 2 years (administered by Torres Strait Aged Care Association Inc.)
- Summary
- The project aims to advance the educational impact and awareness outcomes of older Torres Strait islanders living in the community through the development of an Information Advocacy Hub (IAH). The aims include: 1. Evaluate the implementation of a Pilot Information Advocacy Hub based in the Torres Strait Aged Care Association Inc. (TSACAI); and 2. Evaluate the development of an Advocacy resource sharing Community of Interest. The initial key partnerships aim to collectively develop a sustainable model for the IAH information awareness strategy that aims to demonstrate how advocacy operates across key service providers. The development of an IAH will act as the ?one stop shop? and be the primary point of contact for TSACAI clients, family members and the community.
- Investigators
- Felecia Watkin in collaboration with Vincent Backhaus and Lynda Ah Mat (Indigenous Education & Research Centre)
- Keywords
- Research Impact; Knowledge Translation; Aged Care; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Australian Research Council - Discovery Indigenous
Knowledge Integration for Torres Strait Sustainability
- Indicative Funding
- $387,811 over 3 years
- Summary
- This project aims to support sustainable development in the Torres Strait through the development of practical, locally-relevant strategies for collating, generating and integrating knowledge relevant to the management of intersecting social, economic and environmental challenges. The project seeks to generate new knowledge about how Torres Strait Islander people construct the idea of sustainable development by integrating participatory and quantitative methodologies to support research evaluation and decision-making in a way that supports community aspirations. The expected outcomes include enhanced capacity of Torres Strait Islander people to effectively seek the knowledge that is most useful in their decision-making for sustainability.
- Investigators
- Felecia Watkin, Stewart Lockie and Natalie Stoeckl in collaboration with Sanchia Shibasaki and Cass Hunter (Indigenous Education & Research Centre, Lowitja Institute-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, Cairns Institute and Academy)
- Keywords
- Torres Strait; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; knowledge integration; knowledge translation
Lowitja Institute-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC - LI Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) funding
The Co-production of the Lowitja Institute Knowledge Translation to Research Impact for Empowerment Approach
- Indicative Funding
- $225,000 over 1 year
- Summary
- This research project will involve the co-development of a Knowledge Translation to Research Impact for Empowerment Approach with the Lowitja Institute Research and Knowledge Translation (R&KT) team. The co-development of this approach will incorporate and work off three major products that will provide the building blocks to improving Knowledge Translation (KT) and research impact for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research: 1. Lowitja Institute Knowledge Translation and Research Impact Indicators; 2. Lowitja Institute Research for Impact Tool co-developed with James Cook University (JCU); and 3. Lowitja Institute KT to Research Impact Framework. This research project will combine the proposed programs of work which will lead to the JCU team and the Lowitja Institute developing the first known Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander KT to Research Impact Approach that will underpin research commissioning, monitoring and reporting, translation of knowledge into practice, workforce development and so on. It is anticipated this work will have significant implications for the broader Australian health research environment.
- Investigators
- Felecia Watkin, Komla Tsey and Lynda Ah Mat (Indigenous Education & Research Centre, College of Arts and Society & Education)
- Keywords
- Research Impact; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander He; Knowledge Translation
Lowitja Institute-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC - Seeding Grant 2020
LeadershipFit - Re-imagining community leadership programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
- Indicative Funding
- $6,254 (administered by leadershipFit)
- Summary
- This project aims to instil confidence and further strengthen Indigenous-led intergenerational leadership knowledge transfer for advancing the leadership aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. The project will explore and investigate approaches to further strengthen and improve the connections between senior community leaders and young people willing to learn and develop their leadership capacities by undertaking a needs analysis with a sample of Indigenous led community organisations to determine the demand and scope for an intergenerational leadership mentorship and/or coaching program.
- Investigators
- Felecia Watkin in collaboration with Vincent Backhaus (Indigenous Education & Research Centre)
- Keywords
- ATSI Health; Knowledge Translation; Research Impact; Leadership; Youth Leadership
Lowitja Institute-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC - Seeding Grant 2020
TSACA: Feasibility Study for a Torres Strait Aged Care Information and Advocacy Hub
- Indicative Funding
- $20,730 (administered by Torres Strait Aged Care Association Inc.)
- Summary
- This project A Feasibility Study for a Torres Strait Aged Care Information and Advocacy Hub will provide evidence to support a larger grant application for the second round of grants to close in October 2020. This feasibility study explores the idea of aging and older adults who could benefit from an Aged Care Information and Advocacy Hub. The Information and Advocacy Hub idea aims to support individual and community to better understand the aged care system (particularly within their local island jurisdictions). The aging and older adults Hub concept will involve building networks and key partnerships with aged care services, aligned government agencies, NGOs and relevant non-for-profit agencies in the region. JCU will work with TSACA Inc to i) undertake a needs analysis with key stakeholders to determine the demand and scope; ii) Examine similar models; iii) Prepare a report of findings, and iv) Raise awareness about unmet aged care needs for those living in the Torres Strait and identify opportunities for seniors to contribute meaningfully to their respective communities and the broader Australian society.
- Investigators
- Felecia Watkin in collaboration with Vincent Backhaus and Lynda Ah Mat (Indigenous Education & Research Centre)
- Keywords
- ATSI Health; Research Impact; Knowledge Translation; Aged Care
Lowitja Institute-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC - Research Activity Funding
Meriba buay - ngalpan wakaythoemamy (we come together to think): Evaluating a Torres Strait Research Community of Practice
- Indicative Funding
- $405,692 over 1 year
- Summary
- The project aims to identify and describe processes involved in developing and implementing a Community or Practice (CoP) that focuses on the social determinants of health and well-being for Torres Strait Islanders; and monitor and evaluate the Knowledge Translation (KT) capacity of CoP members and KT impact in the community. The expected outcomes include (a) a repository of knowledge about TSI research projects (b) a network to support capacity building and ? knowledge translation strategy. Current knowledge about the social determinants of health for Torres Strait islanders is fragmented and researchers are often working in isolation. There is growing evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of CoPs in health care and knowledge translation through shared learning, innovative practice and collaborative research.
- Investigators
- Felecia Watkin, Vinnitta Mosby, Juanita Sellwood and Al Harvey in collaboration with Sean Taylor, Cass Hunter, Lynda Ah Mat, Sanchia Shibasaki, Daniel Grainger and Margaret Harvey (Indigenous Education & Research Centre, College of Arts, Society & Education, Queensland Health, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, The University of Queensland, SenseMakers 4 Smarter Care and Monash University)
- Keywords
- Torres Strait; Social Determinants; Community of Practice; ToresStrait Islander health
- Supervision
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Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.
These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.
- Current
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- Best practice and cultural appropriateness: Governance of the Torres Strait fisheries into the future. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
- Exploring Indigenous Cultural Competence in Legal Practitioner Client Relations (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
- INDIGENOUS AND FIRST NATIONS WOMEN IN INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP: A COMPARATIVE STUDY (PhD , Primary Advisor)
- Non-Indigenous narratives of land in Australian news media: A history of the present (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
- Completed
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- Self-Determination Discourses of Zenadth Kes People through Time (2023, Masters , Secondary Advisor)
- Drawing the threads together: Aboriginal screen-printed textiles (2022, PhD , Advisor Mentor)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competence in legal service delivery; how can it be defined, measured and produced? (2022, Masters , Secondary Advisor)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and consumer law (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
- Collaboration
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The map shows research collaborations by institution from the past 7 years.
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- A4.031, A4 (Cairns campus)
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