K Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 26811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6990-6466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Arts informed indigenous research
Diagnosing long-term divergence in Build Back Better outcomes in low- and lower-middle-income communities
Low-income communities in disaster-prone regions face persistent challenges in translating post-disaster recovery investments into sustained resilience, as they navigate trade-offs among engineering objectives, policy constraints, and evolving socio-economic needs. Despite the widespread adoption of Build Back Better (BBB) principles, evidence on the long-term sustainability of outcomes remains limited, particularly in low- and lower-middle-incom…
Strengths and problems with competency-based anti-Indigenous racism education
INTRODUCTION: Racism in healthcare remains persistent and particularly impacts Indigenous Peoples. Antiracism has been conceptualised as a framework to address racism, outlining that all individuals have the responsibility to actively address and prevent racism. Although accreditation standards in health professions programs often emphasise healthcare equity with Indigenous Peoples, health professionals can graduate without antiracism skills. Thr…
Decolonising, Indigenising, or critical Indigenous studies? A nine-year case study in designing education for the health professions
There are global calls to improve health professions education design to assist in strengthening healthcare equity for Indigenous peoples. This case study aimed to investigate Aboriginal health curriculum design and development occurring across a large urban health faculty in Australia. This was achieved by auditing curricula for 9 years and narrating events occurring alongside this. Decolonising, Indigenising, and critical Indigenous studies are…
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia
The Australian continent has over 6500 edible endemic plant species, fourteen of which have been certified for commercial consumption. This paper seeks to critically analyze select Australian Commonwealth Government policy relating to these Aboriginal plant foods. The aim is to purposefully examine the positioning of non-Indigenous people in Aboriginal plant foods policy discourse and reveal tacit settler colonial power relations. This is in resp…
Yarning about e-mental health tools
This study implemented Indigenous research methods, including yarning, to understand First Nations youth's perspectives of social and emotional well-being and how e-health can support their well-being. Six First Nations youth (aged 18-25 years, M = 21.33) based in Victoria, Australia, yarned with the First Nations researcher between April and July 2022. Yarns emphasised the importance of connection to family, Community, Mob, Country, and Spirit i…
“We still have a lot to learn”
Internationally many health professions courses require the inclusion of Indigenous health curricula and skilled educators are vital to achieving this. In this Australian qualitative study, 20 non-Indigenous nursing and allied health educators teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s health were interviewed on perspectives of teaching Indigenous health. Inductive thematic analysis identified three areas relating to perceptions of w…
Growing Indigenous graduates in the health professions
This case study research, informed by an Indigenous Research Paradigm, sought to ascertain the impact of a university’s decentralised health faculty Aboriginal engagement program. It involved analysis of health faculty and other faculties’ 2016–2020 student commencement, enrolment, completion, and retention data. The health faculty was more likely to have Aboriginal commencements in 2017 and 2018 due to a more equitable student selection process …
Colonial shapeshifting
Adams outlines the importance of routinely remembering medical education’s past and present colonial burden on Indigenous peoples
Employee perceptions of race and racism in an Australian hospital
The lack of accurate understanding of the concept of race and racism likely contributes to the relatively poor effect of current strategies to combat racism. As an initial part of deeper systemic anti-racist reform, this research supports calls for anti-racist education to clarify the definition of racism as an ideology
Methodological tensions for non-Indigenous people in Indigenous research
There are complex ethical issues about appropriate roles, responsibilities and methodologies for non-Indigenous people researching Indigenous Peoples and contexts. As a research methodology, critical discourse analysis (CDA) may expose colonial power and inequities through an examination of language and discourse. This study examined, via a scoping review, non-Indigenous researcher CDA application when analysing discourse relating to Aboriginal a…
The Effects of Leadership Curricula With and Without Implicit Bias Training on Graduate Medical Education
When I say … Situation
In this latest contribution to the ‘When I say ... ’ series, Vass and Adams explore the pervasive impact of colonisation as an under‐recognised and poorly addressed context of medical education
“It just makes you feel…like you belong finally”
Employing Yarning method, this study describes people's experiences of a Welcome Baby to Country ceremony in Australia. People articulated immediate social and emotional wellbeing benefits via strengthened identity, belonging and connections to family, community and country. The value of cultural re-initiation and continuity for Aboriginal children's programs cannot be underestimated. Settler colonial paradigms are ill-fit, potentially causing la…
Much being Written about Us, not much being Written with Us
A multi-hazard risk model with cascading failure pathways for the Dawlish (UK) railway using historical and contemporary data
The failure of the vital economic railway link between London and the southwest of the United Kingdom in the 2014 storm chain incurred up to £1.2bn of economic losses. This incident highlighted the urgent need to understand the cascading nature of multi hazards involved in storm damage. This study focuses on the Dawlish railway where a seawall breach caused two months of railway closure in 2014. We used historical and contemporary data of severe …
Can integrating Aboriginal health content in undergraduate nutrition curricula foster student cultural capabilities
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2014) identifies the need for Australian higher education providers to develop health professional students’ cultural capabilities. This study investigated whether integrating the Framework’s learning outcomes into undergraduate nutrition curricula changed higher education students’ self-rated cultural capability learning. A sample of 105 Bachelor of Nutrition Science students…
Educator perceptions on teaching Indigenous health
Are you really using Yarning research? Mapping Social and Family Yarning to strengthen Yarning research quality
Yarning as a research method has its grounding as an Aboriginal culturally specified process. Significant to the Research Yarn is relationality, however; this is a missing feature of published research findings. This article aims to address this. The research question was, what can an analysis of Social and Family Yarning tell us about relationality that underpins a Research Yarn. Participant recruitment occurred using convenience sampling, and d…
Lateral violence in Indigenous peoples
Objectives: Lateral violence is the tendency of peoples from oppressed groups to direct their frustration and anger from their experiences of oppression towards members of their own group. The aim of this study was to examine what is currently known about lateral violence in Indigenous peoples, the psychosocial effects of lateral violence on Indigenous peoples, and to determine whether there is empirical support for the Origins of Lateral Violenc…
Roadmap to recovery
In April 2020 a Group of Eight Taskforce was convened, consisting of over 100 researchers, to provide independent, research‐based recommendations to the Commonwealth Government on a “Roadmap to Recovery” from COVID‐19. The report covered issues ranging from pandemic control and relaxation of social distancing measures, to well‐being and special considerations for vulnerable populations. Our work focused on the critical needs of Aboriginal and Tor…
Connection to Culture Is Like a Massive Lifeline
Culture is an important social and emotional wellbeing factor for Aboriginal peoples in Australia, particularly regarding recovery from colonization. However, little is understood about how culture and wellbeing interact for young urban Aboriginal people. This study used Yarning methods to explore experiences and perceptions of culture and wellbeing for young urban Aboriginal people in Narrm, Australia. Findings indicate that culture is experienc…
Understanding culture
Culture is an essential factor in the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples, but colonisation has disrupted and fragmented Indigenous cultures across the world. In Australia, urban Aboriginal young people are a growing population. However, research, policies and programmes aimed at improving Aboriginal wellbeing are unclear in their understanding of what culture is and how it is included in practice, particularly from the perspective of urban Aborigina…
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy
Objective: To examine key factors influencing the prioritisation of food and nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy during 1996–2015. Design: A qualitative policy analysis case study was undertaken, combining document analysis with thematic analysis of key informant interviews. Setting: Australia. Participants: Key actors involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy between 1996 and 2015 ( n 38). Resul…
Reflecting on Ethnobiology from 1978 to 2018
Use of participatory research and photo-voice to support urban Aboriginal healthy eating
The aim of this research was to work collaboratively with an urban Aboriginal community to understand meanings of food and food insecurity and strengthen responses to this issue. The project took place at the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative in Geelong, South Eastern Australia in 2009-2010. Photo-voice research methods were used to explore meanings of food and food insecurity. This identified that food selections were influenced by family harmon…
Creating Inequality
As both unabashed contests for power and forums for political candidates who, presumably, already have relatively substantial societal power, political debates offer a site for investigating the creation of more powerful language use for some, less powerful for others. Since the canonical debate form promises an equal distribution of turns and topic control to all debators through prespecification of practically everything that might vary in conv…
Understanding culture
Culture is an essential factor in the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples, but colonisation has disrupted and fragmented Indigenous cultures across the world. In Australia, urban Aboriginal young people are a growing population. However, research, policies and programmes aimed at improving Aboriginal wellbeing are unclear in their understanding of what culture is and how it is included in practice, particularly from the perspective of urban Aborigina…
Roadmap to recovery
In April 2020 a Group of Eight Taskforce was convened, consisting of over 100 researchers, to provide independent, research‐based recommendations to the Commonwealth Government on a “Roadmap to Recovery” from COVID‐19. The report covered issues ranging from pandemic control and relaxation of social distancing measures, to well‐being and special considerations for vulnerable populations. Our work focused on the critical needs of Aboriginal and Tor…
Connection to Culture Is Like a Massive Lifeline
Culture is an important social and emotional wellbeing factor for Aboriginal peoples in Australia, particularly regarding recovery from colonization. However, little is understood about how culture and wellbeing interact for young urban Aboriginal people. This study used Yarning methods to explore experiences and perceptions of culture and wellbeing for young urban Aboriginal people in Narrm, Australia. Findings indicate that culture is experienc…
Lateral violence in Indigenous peoples
Objectives: Lateral violence is the tendency of peoples from oppressed groups to direct their frustration and anger from their experiences of oppression towards members of their own group. The aim of this study was to examine what is currently known about lateral violence in Indigenous peoples, the psychosocial effects of lateral violence on Indigenous peoples, and to determine whether there is empirical support for the Origins of Lateral Violenc…
A network approach to policy framing
Employee perceptions of race and racism in an Australian hospital
The lack of accurate understanding of the concept of race and racism likely contributes to the relatively poor effect of current strategies to combat racism. As an initial part of deeper systemic anti-racist reform, this research supports calls for anti-racist education to clarify the definition of racism as an ideology
Setting a New Agenda
The Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Health Strategy was developed to reflect the health priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, as identified by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women themselves. This article describes the process used by the Australian Women’s Health Network to develop the strategy. The women involved in the research used the talking circle method and engaged with Aborigi…
Peer-Support Preferences and Readiness-to-Change Behaviour for Chronic Disease Prevention in an Urban Indigenous Population
Indigenous Australians are far more likely to suffer from chronic disease than are non Indigenous Australians. Taking a health promotion approach to address this inequity, prevention strategies that aim to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and smoking cessation are indicated. In this paper, the authors outline results of a survey that investigated requirements for peer support and readiness-to-change behaviour for urbanised Indigenou…
Creating Inequality
As both unabashed contests for power and forums for political candidates who, presumably, already have relatively substantial societal power, political debates offer a site for investigating the creation of more powerful language use for some, less powerful for others. Since the canonical debate form promises an equal distribution of turns and topic control to all debators through prespecification of practically everything that might vary in conv…
Understanding Telecommunications and Public Policy
People in Political Science
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Setting a New Agenda
The Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Health Strategy was developed to reflect the health priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, as identified by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women themselves. This article describes the process used by the Australian Women’s Health Network to develop the strategy. The women involved in the research used the talking circle method and engaged with Aborigi…
Peer-Support Preferences and Readiness-to-Change Behaviour for Chronic Disease Prevention in an Urban Indigenous Population
Indigenous Australians are far more likely to suffer from chronic disease than are non Indigenous Australians. Taking a health promotion approach to address this inequity, prevention strategies that aim to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and smoking cessation are indicated. In this paper, the authors outline results of a survey that investigated requirements for peer support and readiness-to-change behaviour for urbanised Indigenou…
This Is Not a Guide to Indigenous Research Partnerships
Development of research partnerships can cause confusion, as there is not and cannot be a step-by-step guidebook to community partnerships. Each one is different because each partnership is unique. The aim of this article is to unpack some of the workings of Indigenous research partnerships. In this article we use a mini-literature review of Australian research, and methods of self-reflection and ‘Yarning’ to draw on our research partnership expe…
Use of participatory research and photo-voice to support urban Aboriginal healthy eating
The aim of this research was to work collaboratively with an urban Aboriginal community to understand meanings of food and food insecurity and strengthen responses to this issue. The project took place at the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative in Geelong, South Eastern Australia in 2009-2010. Photo-voice research methods were used to explore meanings of food and food insecurity. This identified that food selections were influenced by family harmon…
The Confederate Heartland
Bradley R. Clampitt's The Confederate Heartland presents a study of morale among civilians and soldiers in three western Confederate states (Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee). While the author openly disclaims that the book represents “a historiographical study per se,” the general thrust of the book is that the internal divisions highlighted by other authors as significant factors in the collapse of the Confederacy hardly affected the lives o…
Patient And Family Engagement
Patient and family engagement offers a promising pathway toward better-quality health care, more-efficient care, and improved population health. Since definitions of patient engagement and conceptions of how it works vary, we propose a framework. We first present the forms engagement can take, ranging from consultation to partnership. We discuss the levels at which patient engagement can occur across the health care system, from the direct care s…
Experiences of Urban Australian Indigenous peer Mentors in a Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Program
This paper describes urban Indigenous Australian experiences of a peer mentor program (PMP) aiming to reduce non-communicable disease (NCD) risks and discusses its implications for future policy and practice. Much of the inequitable mortality for Indigenous Australians is related to NCD incidence. Using a qualitative approach the study reported here explored 21 people's experiences as peer mentors in an NCD risk reduction PMP, which took place be…
A network approach to policy framing
Reflecting on Ethnobiology from 1978 to 2018
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy
Objective: To examine key factors influencing the prioritisation of food and nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy during 1996–2015. Design: A qualitative policy analysis case study was undertaken, combining document analysis with thematic analysis of key informant interviews. Setting: Australia. Participants: Key actors involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy between 1996 and 2015 ( n 38). Resul…
Understanding culture
Culture is an essential factor in the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples, but colonisation has disrupted and fragmented Indigenous cultures across the world. In Australia, urban Aboriginal young people are a growing population. However, research, policies and programmes aimed at improving Aboriginal wellbeing are unclear in their understanding of what culture is and how it is included in practice, particularly from the perspective of urban Aborigina…
A multi-hazard risk model with cascading failure pathways for the Dawlish (UK) railway using historical and contemporary data
The failure of the vital economic railway link between London and the southwest of the United Kingdom in the 2014 storm chain incurred up to £1.2bn of economic losses. This incident highlighted the urgent need to understand the cascading nature of multi hazards involved in storm damage. This study focuses on the Dawlish railway where a seawall breach caused two months of railway closure in 2014. We used historical and contemporary data of severe …
Can integrating Aboriginal health content in undergraduate nutrition curricula foster student cultural capabilities
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2014) identifies the need for Australian higher education providers to develop health professional students’ cultural capabilities. This study investigated whether integrating the Framework’s learning outcomes into undergraduate nutrition curricula changed higher education students’ self-rated cultural capability learning. A sample of 105 Bachelor of Nutrition Science students…
Educator perceptions on teaching Indigenous health
Are you really using Yarning research? Mapping Social and Family Yarning to strengthen Yarning research quality
Yarning as a research method has its grounding as an Aboriginal culturally specified process. Significant to the Research Yarn is relationality, however; this is a missing feature of published research findings. This article aims to address this. The research question was, what can an analysis of Social and Family Yarning tell us about relationality that underpins a Research Yarn. Participant recruitment occurred using convenience sampling, and d…
Lateral violence in Indigenous peoples
Objectives: Lateral violence is the tendency of peoples from oppressed groups to direct their frustration and anger from their experiences of oppression towards members of their own group. The aim of this study was to examine what is currently known about lateral violence in Indigenous peoples, the psychosocial effects of lateral violence on Indigenous peoples, and to determine whether there is empirical support for the Origins of Lateral Violenc…
Roadmap to recovery
In April 2020 a Group of Eight Taskforce was convened, consisting of over 100 researchers, to provide independent, research‐based recommendations to the Commonwealth Government on a “Roadmap to Recovery” from COVID‐19. The report covered issues ranging from pandemic control and relaxation of social distancing measures, to well‐being and special considerations for vulnerable populations. Our work focused on the critical needs of Aboriginal and Tor…
Connection to Culture Is Like a Massive Lifeline
Culture is an important social and emotional wellbeing factor for Aboriginal peoples in Australia, particularly regarding recovery from colonization. However, little is understood about how culture and wellbeing interact for young urban Aboriginal people. This study used Yarning methods to explore experiences and perceptions of culture and wellbeing for young urban Aboriginal people in Narrm, Australia. Findings indicate that culture is experienc…
Methodological tensions for non-Indigenous people in Indigenous research
There are complex ethical issues about appropriate roles, responsibilities and methodologies for non-Indigenous people researching Indigenous Peoples and contexts. As a research methodology, critical discourse analysis (CDA) may expose colonial power and inequities through an examination of language and discourse. This study examined, via a scoping review, non-Indigenous researcher CDA application when analysing discourse relating to Aboriginal a…
The Effects of Leadership Curricula With and Without Implicit Bias Training on Graduate Medical Education
When I say … Situation
In this latest contribution to the ‘When I say ... ’ series, Vass and Adams explore the pervasive impact of colonisation as an under‐recognised and poorly addressed context of medical education
“It just makes you feel…like you belong finally”
Employing Yarning method, this study describes people's experiences of a Welcome Baby to Country ceremony in Australia. People articulated immediate social and emotional wellbeing benefits via strengthened identity, belonging and connections to family, community and country. The value of cultural re-initiation and continuity for Aboriginal children's programs cannot be underestimated. Settler colonial paradigms are ill-fit, potentially causing la…
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (21 works) · Indigenous (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Law (8 works) · Cultural Competency in Health Care (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works)