Roxanne Bainbridge is a Gungarri Aboriginal woman from South Western Queensland.  She has a background in Anthropology and Indigenous Australian Studies. Roxanne is currently employed as a Senior Research Fellow in The Cairns Institute at James Cook University. Her work is embedded in Aboriginal empowerment and social inclusion research and has a particular focus on the social determinants of Aboriginal Australian health and wellbeing. Roxanne’s doctorate was conferred in 2010 and examined pathways to resilience for Aboriginal Australian women. Her subsequent leadership on two Australian Research Council Awards considered: 1) 2011 – 2012:Pathways to engagement into education for Aboriginal students (ARC DI110100011); and 2) 2013 - 2015: The value of mentoring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into education and employment in school contexts (ARC IN130100023). Roxanne is herself mentored by Professor Komla Tsey.

Roxanne is part of a growing body of national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars (National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network – Australian Research Council SR120100005) who are endeavouring to significantly improve the quality of research conducted with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. NIRAKN provides "a platform for new multi-disciplinary research and the establishment of a critical mass of multi-disciplinary, qualified Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers to meet the compelling research needs of our communities". She is also part of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Building Indigenous Research Capacity networkwho are representative of number of universities and research institutes across Australia.

Roxanne demonstrates multidisciplinary expertise clustered around Aboriginal empowerment and wellbeing: her methodological expertise lies particularly in participatory research approaches; auto/ethnographic approaches, systematic literature reviews and grounded theory. She has worked across a number of projects in Aboriginal health and wellbeing (e.g. mental health, palliative care for end-stage renal patients, social and emotional wellbeing and health promotion) and education (e.g. engagement, pedagogy, school transitions, inclusive practice and mentoring); and currently supervises four research students from these key fields.

 

Research Disciplines

• Public Health and Health Services (1117)
• Specialist Studies in Education (1303)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Indigenous Health (9203)

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Journal Articles

• Heyeres M, McCalman J, Bainbridge R and Redman-Maclaren M (2017) Staff capacity development initiatives that support the well-being of Indigenous children in their transitions to boarding schools: a systematic scoping review. Frontiers in Education, 2. pp. 1-10
• 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
• McCalman J, Heyeres M, Campbell S, Bainbridge R, Chamberlain C, Strobel N and Ruben A (2017) Family-centred interventions by primary healthcare services for Indigenous early childhood wellbeing in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States: a systematic scoping review. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17. pp. 1-21
• Percival N, McCalman J, Armit C, O’Donoghue L, Bainbridge R, Rowley K, Doyle J and Tsey K (in press) Implementing health promotion tools in Australian Indigenous primary health care. Health Promotion International,
• Redman-Maclaren M, Klieve H, McCalman J, Russo S, Rutherford K, Wenitong M and Bainbridge R (2017) Measuring resilience and risk factors for the psychosocial wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boarding school students: pilot baseline study results. Frontiers in Education, 2. pp. 1-22
• Tsey K, Lawson K, Kinchin I, Bainbridge R, McCalman J, Watkin F, Cadet-James Y and Rossetto A (in press) Evaluating research impact: the development of a 'RESEARCH for IMPACT' TOOL. Frontiers in Public Health,
• McCalman J, Campbell S, Chamberlain C, Strobel N, Bainbridge R, Wenitong M, Ruben A, Edmond K, Marriott R, Tsey K, Keith K and Shields L (2016) Family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being by primary healthcare services. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews , pp. 1-18
• McCalman J, Bainbridge R, Percival N and Tsey K (2016) The effectiveness of implementation in Indigenous Australian healthcare: an overview of literature reviews. International Journal for Equity in Health, 15. pp. 1-13
• McCalman J, Bainbridge R, Russo S, Rutherford K, Tsey K, Wenitong M, Shakeshaft A, Doran C and Jacups S (2016) Psycho-social resilience, vulnerability and suicide prevention: impact evaluation of a mentoring approach to modify suicide risk for remote Indigenous Australian students at boarding school. BMC Public Health, 16 (98). pp. 1-12
• Saunders V, Usher K, Tsey K and Bainbridge R (2016) If you knew the end of a story would you still want to hear it? Using research poems to listen to Aboriginal stories. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 29 (1). pp. 1-13
• Bainbridge R, Tsey K, McCalman J, Kinchin I, Saunders V, Watkin Lui F, Cadet-James Y, Miller A and Lawson K (2015) No one's discussing the elephant in the room: contemplating questions of research impact and benefit in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian health research. BMC Public Health, 15 (696). pp. 1-10
• Clifford A, McCalman J, Bainbridge R and Tsey K (2015) Interventions to improve cultural competency in health care for Indigenous peoples of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA: a systematic review. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 27 (2). pp. 89-98

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 46+ research outputs authored by Dr Roxanne Bainbridge from 2007 onwards.

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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

• Blackgammon - a Model for Co-designing Alternate Reality Games with Indigenous Australian Youth as a Participatory Health Promotion Approach to Future Healthy Parenthood. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• A grounded theory of program transfer: how an Aboriginal empowerment initiative became "bigger than a program" (2013, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Using a Non-bracketed Narrative to Story Recovery in Aboriginal Mental Health Care. (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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