Shooting Stars continues its journey to challenge the status quo as Research Manager, Dr Rose Whitau, and Regional Manager, Latoya Bolton-Black, present at the 2021 AIATSIS Summit.
The Summit provides a unique forum for academics, government, native title, legal experts and community sectors to collaborate in addressing critical and emerging challenges for native title and research sectors.
The first presentation centred around the Yarning with the Stars Project, which uses regular yarning circles to gain feedback and recommendations from participants, localised steering committees and the broader community to evaluate the success of the program.
The research from the Yarning with the Stars Project has allowed Shooting Stars to identify a number of recurring barriers across its sites and develop and implement further projects to help overcome these barriers, such as the Seven Sisters and Art with the Stars Projects.
Using evidence, impact and research, Shooting Stars is committed to challenging the systems and institutions that adversely impact Aboriginal girls and women. A new project in this space, Black Diamonds, which aims to assess barriers and facilitators to Aboriginal engagement and retention to the sport of netball, was the subject of the second presentation.
Shooting Stars Research Manager, Dr Rose Whitau, said it was amazing to have the opportunity to present at the Summit.
“It was great to be in that environment, around other people that make you feel challenged and inspired and reinforce the importance of the work we are doing in this space,” said Whitau.
“One of our goals as an organisation is to influence positive long-term changes to systems and institutions that currently disempower Aboriginal girls and women and through our research outcomes I think we have a lot to offer in this space.”
