Anna Dwyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 147152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Dwyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Dwyer |
| SIGNATURE | DWYER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Notre Dame Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4169-3096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aboriginal Nation
Our past shapes our present. However, do Australian universities understand the ways historical discourses continue to shape them? Provoked by the findings of our empirical study implemented in Western Australia’s Kimberley region in 2018-2019, we conducted a critical text analysis of recent and past policies to seek historical explanation. As a research team, we noted a demand on behalf of Aboriginal activists to shift from the discourse of ‘pro…
Strangers in a strange land
This paper examines the perceptions of police who work in Queensland’s discrete Indigenous communities. Given the strong relationship between policing practices and the environments in which police work, we examine how ‘place’ and ‘space’ – particularly the environmental context of Queensland’s discrete Indigenous communities – can inform policing. Interviews with fifteen police officers who work in Indigenous communities across Queensland found …
Aboriginal student engagement and success in Kimberley tertiary education
Over recent years, considerable effort has been put into increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) participation in higher education. While there are signs that enrolments are increasing, the sustained engagement and successful completion of higher education remains challenging, particularly in remote locations. With this in mind, a collaborative research project among researchers from three northern Australian tertiary edu…
Maternal education influences Australian infants’ language experience from six months
Disparities in children's early language skills associated with socioeconomic factors have led to many studies examining children's early language environments, but few as yet in the first year of life. This longitudinal study assessed the home language environments of 50 Australian infants, who varied in maternal education (university education, or not). Full‐day audio recordings were collected and analyzed using the LENA system when infants wer…
Assessing cognitive impairment in Indigenous Australians
The Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) was initially developed and validated as a culturally appropriate dementia screening tool for older Indigenous people living in the Kimberley. This paper describes the re-evaluation of the psychometric properties of the cognitive section (KICA-Cog) of this tool in two different populations, including a Northern Territory sample, and a larger population-based cohort from the Kimberley. In both p…
Assessing cognitive impairment in Indigenous Australians
The Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) was initially developed and validated as a culturally appropriate dementia screening tool for older Indigenous people living in the Kimberley. This paper describes the re-evaluation of the psychometric properties of the cognitive section (KICA-Cog) of this tool in two different populations, including a Northern Territory sample, and a larger population-based cohort from the Kimberley. In both p…
Assessing cognitive impairment in Indigenous Australians
The Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) was initially developed and validated as a culturally appropriate dementia screening tool for older Indigenous people living in the Kimberley. This paper describes the re-evaluation of the psychometric properties of the cognitive section (KICA-Cog) of this tool in two different populations, including a Northern Territory sample, and a larger population-based cohort from the Kimberley. In both p…
Maternal education influences Australian infants’ language experience from six months
Disparities in children's early language skills associated with socioeconomic factors have led to many studies examining children's early language environments, but few as yet in the first year of life. This longitudinal study assessed the home language environments of 50 Australian infants, who varied in maternal education (university education, or not). Full‐day audio recordings were collected and analyzed using the LENA system when infants wer…
Strangers in a strange land
This paper examines the perceptions of police who work in Queensland’s discrete Indigenous communities. Given the strong relationship between policing practices and the environments in which police work, we examine how ‘place’ and ‘space’ – particularly the environmental context of Queensland’s discrete Indigenous communities – can inform policing. Interviews with fifteen police officers who work in Indigenous communities across Queensland found …
Aboriginal student engagement and success in Kimberley tertiary education
Over recent years, considerable effort has been put into increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) participation in higher education. While there are signs that enrolments are increasing, the sustained engagement and successful completion of higher education remains challenging, particularly in remote locations. With this in mind, a collaborative research project among researchers from three northern Australian tertiary edu…
Aboriginal Nation
Our past shapes our present. However, do Australian universities understand the ways historical discourses continue to shape them? Provoked by the findings of our empirical study implemented in Western Australia’s Kimberley region in 2018-2019, we conducted a critical text analysis of recent and past policies to seek historical explanation. As a research team, we noted a demand on behalf of Aboriginal activists to shift from the discourse of ‘pro…
Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)