Warwick Padgham

Thesis title

How do dual delivery health justice service programs in Indigenous community-controlled health organisations give effect to Indigenous self-determination?

Description of PhD project

Approximately 20 Indigenous community-controlled health organisations have developed a legal services cooperation program as part of the service model available to community members. This dual service delivery of health and justice recognises that Indigenous Australians are more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to have negative engagement with the justice system, because of long-standing issues related to colonisation and the intergenerational inheritance of disadvantage, and that this directly undermines individual and community health and wellbeing. This project will explore how community members see value in these dual delivery services, particularly as it relates to an improved association with their health and wellbeing.

Supervisors

• Professor Cathy Vaughan
• Associate Professor Shawana Andrews
• Dr Eddie Cubillo

Biography

Warwick Padgham is a Taungurung man from the Kulin Nations and has a long history of working in the Indigenous health and legal education areas within the University of Melbourne. He is interested in how the intersections of health and law exist for Indigenous people and communities, as well as how tertiary institutions can assist in these areas of work.

Funders/scholarships 

• Indigenous Knowledge Institute