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)
• Health and Support Services (9202)

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

• Bailie J, Cunningham F, Bainbridge R, Passey M, Laycock A, Bailie R, Larkins S, Brands J, Ramanathan S, Abimbola S and Peiris D (2018) Comparing and contrasting 'innovation platforms' with other forms of professional networks for strengthening primary healthcare systems for Indigenous Australians. BMJ Global Health, 3 (3).
• Heyeres M, McCalman J, Langham E, Bainbridge R, Redman-Maclaren M, Britton A, Rutherford K and Tsey K (in press) Strengthening the capacity of education staff to support the wellbeing of Indigenous students in boarding schools: a participatory action research study. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education,
• Hutchings K, Bainbridge R, Bodle K and Miller A (in press) Determinants of attraction, retention and completion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander higher degree research students: a systematic review to inform future research directions. Research in Higher Education,
• McCalman J, Bailie R, Bainbridge R, McPhail-Bell K, Percival N, Askew D, Fagan R and Tsey K (2018) Continuous quality improvement and comprehensive primary healthcare: a systems framework to improve service quality and health outcomes. Frontiers in Public Health, 6.
• McCalman J, Bainbridge R, Brown C, Tsey K and Clarke A (2018) The Aboriginal Australian family wellbeing program: a historical analysis of the conditions that enabled its spread. Frontiers in Public Health, 6.
• McPhail-Bell K, Matthews V, Bainbridge R, Redman-MacLaren M, Askew D, Ramanathan S, Bailie J and Bailie R (2018) An ‘all teach, all learn’ approach to research capacity strengthening in Indigenous primary health care continuous quality improvement. Frontiers in Public Health, 6.
• Percival N, McCalman J, Armit C, O’Donoghue L, Bainbridge R, Rowley K, Doyle J and Tsey K (2018) Implementing health promotion tools in Australian Indigenous primary health care. Health Promotion International, 33 (1). pp. 92-106
• Clifford A, McCalman J, Jongen C and Bainbridge R (2017) Cultural competency training and education in the university-based professional training of health professionals: characteristics, quality and outcomes of evaluations. Diversity and Equality in Health and Care, 14 (3). pp. 136-147
• Ge X, Sathiakumar D, Lua B, Kukreti H, Lee M and McFarlane C (2017) Myostatin signals through miR-34a to regulate Fndc5 expression and browning of white adipocytes. International Journal of Obesity, 41. pp. 137-148
• 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
• Jongen C, McCalman J and Bainbridge R (2017) The implementation and evaluation health promotion services and programs to improve cultural competency: a systematic scoping review. Frontiers in Public Health, 5.

Books

• Jongen C, McCalman J, Bainbridge R and Clifford A (2018) Cultural Competence in Health: a review of the evidence. Springer Briefs in Public Health. Springer, Singapore

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 60+ 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

• "...": using a non-bracketed narrative to story recovery in Aboriginal mental health care (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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