Michael Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2708-4753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Non-dyadic Mobile Multi-Robot System Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review
The increasing deployment of low-cost mobile robotic platforms offers transformative potential for addressing dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks across sectors such as defence, nuclear, logistics, and agriculture. Forecasts project the global multi-robot systems (MRS) market to exceed $5.9 billion by 2028, driven by demand for scalable, autonomous solutions. As Mobile Multi-Robot Systems (MMRS) transition from research prototypes to operational ass…
Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic: Safety practices and insights from Aboriginal elders, organisations and communities
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia highlighted the strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisation However, it also exposed significant challenges relating to equity, equality, and ethical decision-making, underscoring the need for Aboriginal community-based research to gain a better understanding of the pandemic's impact. Using Indigenous Standpoint Theory and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory as philosophical lens …
Co-designing a relational ethical decision-making framework with Aboriginal Elders and young people to address health inequities
State and National Government policies in Australia increasingly emphasise the need for partnerships and relationships to deliver positive outcomes for First Nations peoples. However, whether these partnerships embody First Nations relational ways of working, or meet the needs and priorities of communities, is not well known. An Aboriginal participatory action research project, grounded in an Aboriginal research methodology, Debakarn, Koorliny Wa…
Foundations of the Alive National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation: Impact evaluation protocol
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation was established in 2021. Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's Special Initiative in Mental Health, the Centre aims to foster innovation in mental health care. Central to this aim is embedding the voices of those with lived experience into all Centre structures and activities including leadership and co-design of research priorities for mental healt…
Making Sure the Path Is Safe”: A Case Study of the Influence of Aboriginal Elders on Non-Aboriginal Organisational Leadership
The question of how Aboriginal Elders influence the leadership of non-Aboriginal led service organisations when working biddiya to biddiya (boss to boss) emerged while conducting a qualitative analysis as part of the evaluation of the Looking Forward Moving Forward project. This project brought together non-Aboriginal service leaders, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers to implement and evaluate a framework for engagem…
Insights into the financial viability of Australian general practices: Implications for primary care reform
Context: General practice is considered the frontline of primary health care in Australia with nearly nine out ten Australians seeing a general practitioner (GP) each year. As part of the Federal Government’s initial COVID-19 response, Australia’s national health insurer, Medicare, introduced funding for telephone and video services (‘telehealth’) and a requirement to provide these services with no out-of-pocket charges to patients. Objective: To…
Diverse experiences of private allied health practices managing through the Covid-19 pandemic: Lesson for funding reform
Context: The majority of allied health services in Australia are delivered by small private practices in the primary care setting with limited government funding. During the initial lockdowns to reduce transmission of COVID-19, these practices were subject to the same health orders as other private business with only ‘essential services’ permitted to remain open. Objective: To understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated public …
Community Health Navigator assisted transition of care from hospital to community: A randomised control trial
Background: Internationally, the roles of Community Health Workers, also known as Community Health Navigators (CHNs), have been developed as an intervention to improve the transition of people to their homes following a hospital admission. Generally, CHNs are trusted members of the communities they serve. This trusting relationship enables them to serve as a link between health services, social services and the community to facilitate access and …
Successful conservation of United States Department of Defense Lands: Response to Emily Rabung & Eric Toman (2022), Soldiers in the garden: managing the US military training landscape
The National Military Fish & Wildlife Association (NMFWA) presents a rebuttal to the article by Rabung and Toman (Citation2022) on the management of United States Department of Defense (DoD) Lands. Published literature supports the notion that military training areas are not only managed to comply with environmental laws, regulations, and policies, but also represent flourishing natural areas with diverse ecosystems, high biodiversity, and rare s…
Developing the Indigenous Language and Wellbeing Survey: Approaches to integrating qualitative findings into a survey instrument
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages can be seen as an integral aspect of cultural health. While colonisation has had devastating effects upon Indigenous languages, communities are increasingly reclaiming their languages, as a means to cultural preservation, community wellbeing and healing. Currently, there are no tools that specifically measure the potential positive impacts of language revival on the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. …
Ngany Kamam, I Speak Truly”: First-Person Accounts of Aboriginal Youth Voices in Mental Health Service Reform
Aboriginal young people are experts in their own experience and are best placed to identify the solutions to their mental health and wellbeing needs. Given that Aboriginal young people experience high rates of mental health concerns and are less likely than non-Indigenous young people to access mental health services, co-design and evaluation of appropriate mental health care is a priority. Increasing Aboriginal young people's participation in me…
Debakarn Koorliny Wangkiny: Steady Walking and Talking Using First Nations-Led Participatory Action Research Methodologies to Build Relationships
Aboriginal participatory action research (APAR) has an ethical focus that corrects the imbalances of colonisation through participation and shared decision-making to position people, place, and intention at the centre of research. APAR supports researchers to respond to the community's local rhythms and culture. APAR supports researchers to respond to the community's local rhythms and culture. First Nations scholars and their allies do this in a …
First Nations Australians’ experiences of current alcohol policy in Central Australia: Evidence of self-determination
Alcohol is the leading cause of healthy years lost. There is significant variation in alcohol consumption patterns and harms in Australia, with those residing in the Northern Territory (NT), particularly First Nations Australians, experiencing higher alcohol-attributable harms than other Australians. Community leadership in the planning and implementation of health, including alcohol, policy is important to health outcomes for First Nations Austr…
Self-determination by First Nations Australians in alcohol policy: Lessons from Mbantua/Alice Springs (Northern Territory, Australia)
Building a Nyoongar work practice model for Aboriginal youth mental health: Prioritising Trust, Culture and Spirit, and New Ways of Working
Mainstream youth mental health services struggle to comprehend the connection between colonisation and service provision for Aboriginal young people. This is the consensus agreed by Aboriginal Elders from Perth, Western Australia and young Aboriginal leaders within their communities (Wright, Culbong, Crisp, Biedermann, & Lin (2019). 1-7). What is required is a more nuanced, culturally relevant approach to both an understanding of the impact of co…
Co-Designing Health Service Evaluation Tools That Foreground First Nation Worldviews for Better Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes
It is critical that health service evaluation frameworks include Aboriginal people and their cultural worldviews from design to implementation. During a large participatory action research study, Elders, service leaders and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers co-designed evaluation tools to test the efficacy of a previously co-designed engagement framework. Through a series of co-design workshops, tools were built using innovative collabora…
Identifying how the principles of self-determination could be applied to create effective alcohol policy for First Nations Australians: Synthesising the lessons from the development of general public …
Cultivating Empathy Through Virtual Reality: Advancing Conversations About Racism, Inequity, and Climate in Medicine
PROBLEM: Racism and bias are fundamental causes of health inequities, and they negatively affect the climate of academic medical institutions across the United States. APPROACH: In 2019, the Zucker School of Medicine and Northwell Health piloted a virtual reality (VR) racism experience as a component of professional development for medical school and health system leaders, faculty, and staff. Participants experienced a 60-minute, interactive, lar…
The Asia Pacific Disaster Mental Health Network: Setting a Mental Health Agenda for the Region
Addressing the psychological mechanisms and structural inequalities that underpin mental health issues is critical to recovery following disasters and pandemics. The Asia Pacific Disaster Mental Health Network was established in June 2020 in response to the current disaster climate and to foster advancements in disaster-oriented mental health research, practice and policy across the region. Supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) Themati…
Implementing genuine participatory action research with Aboriginal Elders: The Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort project
This paper describes the processes involved in establishing a genuinely collaborative and participatory role for nine Aboriginal Elders in a five-year participatory action research project focused on early child development in the Perth metropolitan area of Western Australia. The project goals are to better inform and align policy and program design with Aboriginal values, world views and concepts of childhood. The Elder’s authority in the design…
Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice with Marginalized Oppressed Populations
Delivering Elder- and Community-Led Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Research: Lessons from the Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort Project
Elder- and community-led research processes are increasingly being acknowledged as critical for successful Aboriginal health and wellbeing research. This article provides an overview of the methodologies, methods and progress of the Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort (Our Children, Our Heart) project-an Elder- and community-led research and research-translation project focused on the early childhood development of Australian Aboriginal children in an…
Language Breathes Life”—Barngarla Community Perspectives on the Wellbeing Impacts of Reclaiming a Dormant Australian Aboriginal Language
Traditional languages are a key element of Indigenous peoples' identity, cultural expression, autonomy, spiritual and intellectual sovereignty, and wellbeing. While the links between Indigenous language loss and poor mental health have been demonstrated in several settings, little research has sought to identify the potential psychological benefits that may derive from language reclamation. The revival of the Barngarla language on the Eyre Penins…
Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being
The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland
The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of our musical culture, though it has attracted relatively little academic study. Britain and Ireland played a significant role in the instrument‘s manufacture and world distri…
Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being
Debakarn Koorliny Wangkiny: Steady Walking and Talking Using First Nations-Led Participatory Action Research Methodologies to Build Relationships
Aboriginal participatory action research (APAR) has an ethical focus that corrects the imbalances of colonisation through participation and shared decision-making to position people, place, and intention at the centre of research. APAR supports researchers to respond to the community's local rhythms and culture. APAR supports researchers to respond to the community's local rhythms and culture. First Nations scholars and their allies do this in a …
No laughing matter: Medical and social experiences of restricted growth
People with restricted growth have liminal status in the disability community. Because people with these conditions appear to live normal lives, they do not always define themselves as disabled or participate in the disability community, nor are they always identified as disabled people by others. This paper reports from a project seeking to fill the research gap around the social and medical impact of skeletal dysplasia, finding that adults with…
Successful conservation of United States Department of Defense Lands: Response to Emily Rabung & Eric Toman (2022), Soldiers in the garden: managing the US military training landscape
The National Military Fish & Wildlife Association (NMFWA) presents a rebuttal to the article by Rabung and Toman (Citation2022) on the management of United States Department of Defense (DoD) Lands. Published literature supports the notion that military training areas are not only managed to comply with environmental laws, regulations, and policies, but also represent flourishing natural areas with diverse ecosystems, high biodiversity, and rare s…
Building a Nyoongar work practice model for Aboriginal youth mental health: Prioritising Trust, Culture and Spirit, and New Ways of Working
Mainstream youth mental health services struggle to comprehend the connection between colonisation and service provision for Aboriginal young people. This is the consensus agreed by Aboriginal Elders from Perth, Western Australia and young Aboriginal leaders within their communities (Wright, Culbong, Crisp, Biedermann, & Lin (2019). 1-7). What is required is a more nuanced, culturally relevant approach to both an understanding of the impact of co…
Reproductive Hazards and "Protective" Discrimination
British Foreign Policy in Europe
WHEN I had the pleasure of being in Philadelphia a few weeks ago a distinguished American lady who has interested herself particularly in the analysis of public opinion told me that in the course of taking a public opinion poll she had recently spoken to a farmer in Iowa. Among the questions which she asked the farmer was, What do you think of the problem of AngloAmerican relations? The farmer reflected for some time and then said, To tell you th…
British Foreign Policy in Europe
WHEN I had the pleasure of being in Philadelphia a few weeks ago a distinguished American lady who has interested herself particularly in the analysis of public opinion told me that in the course of taking a public opinion poll she had recently spoken to a farmer in Iowa. Among the questions which she asked the farmer was, What do you think of the problem of AngloAmerican relations? The farmer reflected for some time and then said, To tell you th…
Disarm and Verify. An Explanation of the Central Difficulties and of National Policies
The Kings of Buganda
Reproductive Hazards and "Protective" Discrimination
Exiles and Migrants in Oceania
A Worker in a Worker's State: Piece-Rates in Hungary
In process: Leonardo Shapiro, the Shaliko company, and strangers
The article examines a work‐in‐progress called Strangers. What is unique about the work is that, first, it is based entirely on real events combined in a highly unusual form, and, secondly, this form is not fixed in any way or based on easily accessible precursors. The article is a witnessing, then, of the struggle to create this form on the part of its director/author, Leonardo Shapiro, and his co‐creators, the Shaliko Company. It examines the s…
Cicero on Self-Love and Love of Humanity in De Finibus 3
(As soon as a living creature is born-for this should be our starting-point --it has an attachment to itself and commends itself to self-preservation and to loving its own condition and whatever preserves that condition, but sets itself against death and whatever obviously contributes to death. The Stoics demonstrate this as follows: before pleasure or pain affects them, infants reach out for what is health-giving and reject the opposite-and this…
Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: The ICI Environmental Burden System
The Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) group has developed a method, called the “environmental burden system” to rank the potential environmental impacts of its emissions and wastes. The method uses potency factors to characterize the potential environmental impacts of wastes and emissions in ten major impact categories. When compared to the more traditional approach of reporting the total mass of emissions and wastes, the environmental burden ap…
Anglo-Saxon Midwives
The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 10, October 1863-August 1864
'Brass Hats… from Sydney': Volunteerism, Contested Space and the Organisation of Fire Suppression in the Blue Mountains 1950-60
This article examines the demarcation of work which existed between career firefighters employed by the Board of Fire Commissioners (BFC) and local volunteer firefighters in the Blue Mountains (NSW, Australia) in the 1950s. It explores how career firefighters sought to control the activities of volunteer bushfire brigade volunteers by 'gaining territory' and asserting organisational control over it. In doing so, the article also highlights the wa…
Utjecaj političkih čimbenika na razvoj palijativne skrbi u Velikoj Britaniji
U Velikoj Britaniji postoji mnogo dokaza koji pokazuju kako palijativna skrb zadobiva važno priznavanje unutar politicke arene krecuci se postupno od marginalne aktivnosti rezervirane uglavnom za lokalne i neovisne dobrotvorne organizacije prema važnijoj ulozi u strukturi ustanova za zdravstvenu i socijalnu skrb. Ovaj clanak nudi siri pregled faktora koji utjecu na palijativnu skrb u Velikoj Britaniji u razdoblju nakon Drugog svjetskog rata pa sv…
Writing the Wilton Women: Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius
This collection of essays and translations brings together two closely related works by an important but little studied late eleventh-century author, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. His Liber confortatorius (the earliest work of spiritual instruction for a female recluse known to have been written in England) is addressed to Eve. Goscelin, who may have been a chaplain at Wilton, had been Eve’s spiritual mentor since her childhood. Eve, however, left Wi…
The Contemporary Older Man: Summary and Discussion
This edition of the Journal has included a series of articles on the contemporary man in his elder years and the challenges and opportunities he may face. For example, an article by Bullock brings attentions to the increasing number of grandfathers who are becoming responsible for their grandchildren in the absence of fathers. Her study of 26 men age 65 and above who are responsible for the care of at least one grandchild revealed perceptions of …
Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa
Conflict, poverty, endemic diseases, and lack of clean water pose serious challenges for the population in Africa. This book focuses on palliative care and hospice development, examining the development of palliative care services in 26 African countries where initiatives have been identified.
Hospice and Palliative Care in Southeast Asia: A review of developments and challenges in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines
Since the turn of the century, there has been worldwide growth in the effort to improve the quality of end of life care. Alongside these initiatives, growing interest in the international development of hospice and palliative care has created the need for an informed, in depth overview of the state of development in different world regions. A follow-up to the successful Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa: a review of developments and challenge…
No laughing matter: Medical and social experiences of restricted growth
People with restricted growth have liminal status in the disability community. Because people with these conditions appear to live normal lives, they do not always define themselves as disabled or participate in the disability community, nor are they always identified as disabled people by others. This paper reports from a project seeking to fill the research gap around the social and medical impact of skeletal dysplasia, finding that adults with…
Natural Connections: Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
From Provider Continuity to Practice Integration. Changing Care in Australian General Practice
Introduction: Attempts to encourage integrated care in Australia are known be made difficult by complicated funding health funding streams that come through two layers of government (Federal and State) and differing constitutional responsibilities for hospitals and other health care. This paper discusses further potential barriers to integration at a primary care level.Description of context: Primary care is predominantly funded by the Federal Go…
The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland
The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of our musical culture, though it has attracted relatively little academic study. Britain and Ireland played a significant role in the instrument‘s manufacture and world distri…
Adopting a financial capability and asset-building curriculum at historically Black colleges and universities
Social workers currently engage in financial capability practice with low-income and financially vulnerable individuals and families in diverse practice settings, but typically lack professional preparation for this work. In response, several schools of social work have begun adopting financial capability curricula. Using an in-depth interview methodology, this study examines the adoption of a curriculum in financial capability and asset building…
Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice with Marginalized Oppressed Populations
Delivering Elder- and Community-Led Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Research: Lessons from the Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort Project
Elder- and community-led research processes are increasingly being acknowledged as critical for successful Aboriginal health and wellbeing research. This article provides an overview of the methodologies, methods and progress of the Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort (Our Children, Our Heart) project-an Elder- and community-led research and research-translation project focused on the early childhood development of Australian Aboriginal children in an…
Language Breathes Life”—Barngarla Community Perspectives on the Wellbeing Impacts of Reclaiming a Dormant Australian Aboriginal Language
Traditional languages are a key element of Indigenous peoples' identity, cultural expression, autonomy, spiritual and intellectual sovereignty, and wellbeing. While the links between Indigenous language loss and poor mental health have been demonstrated in several settings, little research has sought to identify the potential psychological benefits that may derive from language reclamation. The revival of the Barngarla language on the Eyre Penins…
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (14 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (9 works) · Community Health and Development (8 works) · Economics (8 works)