Measures of Indigenous wellbeing and their determinants across the lifecourse

2011 CAEPR Online Lecture Series

Dr Nicholas Biddle

Series overview

Beginning in October 2010, Commonwealth and State governments funded CAEPR to undertake a detailed analysis of the 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS). The aim of this lecture series is to summarise the evidence on Indigenous wellbeing, with a particular focus being an examination of the variation in measures of wellbeing across the lifecourse. The series will suit students and policy makers working on or researching Indigenous issues, as well as academics with an interest in Indigenous wellbeing.

The 13-part lecture series ran from February to June 2011. Each lecture is available on this website as a PDF document (with presentation slides and embedded audio), along with an accompanying short formal paper addressing the lecture's subject.

Click on the links below to access series documents and lectures.

Lecture Overview

PART A: Introduction and overview
Lecture 1	3 February 2011	Definitions of wellbeing and their applicability to Indigenous policy in Australia
Lecture 2	3 February 2011	Measuring and analysing wellbeing
PART B: Individual measures of wellbeing — Healthy people
Lecture 3	17 February 2011	Physical and mental health
Lecture 4	10 March 2011	Skills and learning
Lecture 5	10 March 2011	Income, work and Indigenous livelihoods
Lecture 6	31 March 2011	Crime and feelings of safety
Lecture 7	31 March 2011	Indigenous experience of violence & Indigenous empowerment: Gender and Indigenous wellbeing [Guest lecturer Mandy Yap]
PART C: Household and community measures of wellbeing — Healthy community
Lecture 8	29 April 2011	Housing and households
Lecture 9	29 April 2011	Community infrastructure
Lecture 10	5 May 2011	Sustainability—Land, language and culture
Lecture 11	5 May 2011	Social capital and capabilities
Lecture 12	19 May 2011	Measures of wellbeing for Indigenous children
PART D: Summary and conclusions
Lecture 13	9 June 2011	Summary and conclusions

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Series outline

A PDF slide presentation (including embedded audio) outlining the lecture series is available below, along with a paper introducing the lecture series.