Wp/nys/Michael Wright

Dr Michael Wright at Lowitja International Health and Wellbeing Conference, Melbourne 2016

Dr Michael Wright is a Yuat Nyoongar man. Self-described as a humble Noongar man, his family is from the Moora wer New Norcia area of WA, north of Perth. He has worked as a hospital-based social worker wer as a mental health service manager.

Career

In 2010, Michael graduated with a PhD that investigated issues of access to services by Aboriginal families whose lives are affected by mental illness. Michael holds a Fellowship position at Curtin University in the Division of Health Sciences wer is based at the Curtin University National Drug Research Institute. He is also a member of the Mental Health Advisory Council to the WA Mental Health Commission wer a committee member of the Lowitja Institute's workforce program.

Dr Wright works in partnership with Nyoongar (Aboriginal) families, mental health wer drug wer alcohol service providers, The Mental Health Commission, Curtin University wer the Telethon Kids Institute.

Michael is a member of the Mental Health Advisory Council (MHAC), an advisory council to the WA Mental Health Commissioner. He is also a committee member il Program 2: A health workforce to address Aboriginal wer Torres Strait Islander health, keny of three programs of research at the Lowitja Institute.

Publications

• Wright M, Lin A wer O'Connell M, 2016. Humility, inquisitiveness, wer openness: key attributes for meaningful engagement with Nyoongar people, Advances in Mental Health, DOI: 10.080/18387357.2016.1173516.
• Wright M wer O'Connell M, 2015. Working together makes us stronger: Mindful practices in mental health wer drug wer alcohol service provision to better support Nyoongar families, New Community, 13 (3) Issue 51: 5-6, Borderlands Cooperative, Hawthorn, Victoria.
• Wright M wer Wilkes E, 2015. Nyoongar marmun wangkiny nidja Nyoongar boodja, New Community, 13 (3) Issue 51: 14-17, Borderlands Cooperative, Hawthorn, Victoria.
• Wright M, Lin A wer O'Connell M, 2015. Commentary il Black et al., A systematic review: Identifying the prevalence rates of psychiatric disorder in Australia's Indigenous populations. Australian wer New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1177/0004867415604370.
• Wright, M wer O'Connell, M, 2015, Negotiating the right path: effecting change in the provision of healthcare, Action Learning, Action Research Journal, 21 (1): 108-123.
• Wright M. Reframing Aboriginal care-giving. Dudgeon P, Milroy H & Walker R. (Eds) 2014, Working Together: Aboriginal wer Torres Strait Islander Mental Health wer Wellbeing Principles wer Practice, 2nd edition. Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister wer Cabinet, Canberra. pp. 243-256.
• Dudgeon P, Wright M, Paradies Y, Garvey D & Walker I. Aboriginal Social, Cultural wer Historical Contexts. Dudgeon P, Milroy H & Walker R. (Eds) 2014, Working Together: Aboriginal wer Torres Strait Islander Mental Health wer Wellbeing Principles wer Practice, 2nd Edition. Australian Government Department of Health wer Ageing, Canberra. pp. 3 -24.
• Wright M, Culbong M, O'Connell M, Jones T & Ford D. 2013. Weaving the narratives of relationship into community-based participatory research. New Community Quarterly, 11(3) Issue 43, 8-14.
• Wright M, Culbong M, O'Connell M, Jones T & Ford D.2013. Making a difference: Engaging both hearts wer minds in research practice. Action Learning Action Research Journal. 19(1) 36-61.
• Wright M. 2012, Giving wer receiving care: Reframing the work of Aboriginal care-giving, In McCoy B, Stewart P wer Poroch N (eds.) in Urban Health: Strengthening our voice, culture wer partnerships AIATSIS Research Publications, Canberra pp. 105-117
• Wright M wer McCoy B. 2012. Empowering public health research: An Indigenous wer non-Indigenous reflection il public health research, In McCoy B, Stewart P wer Poroch N (eds.) in Urban Health: Strengthening our voice, culture wer partnerships AIATSIS Research Publications, Canberra pp. 119-129.
• Wright, M. 2011. Research as Intervention: Engaging Silenced Voices. ALARj 17(2), 25-46.
• Dudgeon, P, Wright, M, Coffin J, 2010, 'Talking It And Walking It: Cultural Competence', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 13(3), 29-44.
• Wright M, O'Connell M & Jones, T. 2013. Open Hearts, Open Hands: A Spiritutal Change of Journey. A Handbook produced for service providers participating in the Looking Forward Project.
• Wright M, Dudgeon P, D'Antoine, H & Wilks E. 2007.Would the Northern Territory plan pass the Government's own ethical guidelines? ANZ Journal of Public Health. Vol 31, No. 5.