title: "It puts a human face on the researched"--A qualitative evaluation of an Indigenous health research governance model.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the Inala Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Jury for Health Research, and evaluate its usefulness as a model of Indigenous research governance within an urban Indigenous primary health care service from the perspectives of jury members and researchers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Informed by a phenomenological approach and using narrative inquiry, a focus group was conducted with jury members and key informant interviews were undertaken with researchers who had presented to the Community Jury in its first year of operation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The jury was a site of identity work for researchers and jury members, providing an opportunity to observe and affirm community cultural protocols. Although researchers and jury members had differing levels of research literacy, the jury processes enabled respectful communication and relationships to form, which positively influenced research practice, community aspirations and clinical care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The jury processes facilitated transformative research practice among researchers and resulted in transference of power from researchers to the jury members, to the mutual benefit of both.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ethical Indigenous health research practice requires an engagement with Indigenous peoples and knowledge at the research governance level, not simply as subjects or objects of research.
authors.affiliation: Oodgeroo Unit, Chancellery, Queensland University of Technology.
authors.forename: Chelsea
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bond
authors.affiliation: Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care; School of Population Health, University of Queensland.
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Foley
authors.affiliation: Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care; School of Population Health, University of Queensland.|Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine, University of Queensland.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Askew
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; community engagement; ethics; research governance