Kate Doery

Position: Research Officer
School and/or Centres: Centre for Social Research and Methods

Biography
Publications

Kate Doery is a Research Officer in the Social-Biology Research Group at the Centre for Social Research and Methods. Kate joined the Soc-Bio research team in 2020. Kate completed her Masters of Culture Health and Medicine with the ANU. Kate is an emerging researcher in health and social science with a specific focus on the social and cultural determinants of health and the impact they have on the lives of children and young people from Indigenous and ethnic minority backgrounds. Kate’s current research focuses on exploring young people’s experiences of racism and discrimination, effects of these experiences, and on co-designing anti-racism strategies. Kate has a strong interest and role in ensuring meaningful community engagement and knowledge translation practices are embedding in all the team’s research projects.

Prior to joining the Soc-Bio team Kate worked as a Research Assistant with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Team, Research School of Population Health, ANU. Kate holds an honorary position with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where the Soc-Bio team is co-located.

Priest, N., Guo, J., Doery, K., Perry, R., Thurber, K.A., Jones, J., Gibaju, L., Skelton, F. 2021 Racism, Racial Discrimination and Child and Youth Health: A rapid evidence synthesis. VicHealth, Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved from https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/media-and-resources/publications/racism-racialdiscriminiation-child-and-youth-health

Priest, N., Doery, K., Truong, M., Guo, S., Perry, R., Trenerry, B., Karlsen, S., Kelly, Y. and Paradies, Y., 2021. Updated systematic review and meta-analysis of studies examining the relationship between reported racism and health and well-being for children and youth: a protocol. BMJ open, 11(6), p.e043722.

Thurber, K.A., Thandrayen, J., Banks, E., Doery, K., Sedgwick, M. and Lovett, R., 2020. Strengths-based approaches for quantitative data analysis: A case study using the Australian Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. SSM-population health, 12, p.100637.

Guthrie, J., Thurber, K.A., Lovett, R., Gray, M., Banks, E., Olsen, A., Calabria, B., Priest, N., Dance, P., Thandrayen, J., Colonna, E., Cohen, R., Brinckley, M., Wells, S., Salmon, M., Doery, K., Movva, N., Dunbar, T., Hovane, T. 2020 ‘The answers were there before white man come in’: stories of strength and resilience for responding to violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities – Family and Community Safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Study Report. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Team, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra

Doery, K., Guerra, G., Kenny, E., Harriott, L., Priest, N. 2020 Hidden Cost: Young multicultural Victorians and COVID-19, Melbourne, Victoria: Centre for Multicultural Youth. Retrieved from https://www.cmy.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Hidden-Cost-Young-Multicultural-Victorians-and-COVID-19_FULL-REPORT-Oct2020.pdf

Colonna E., Maddox R., Cohen R., Marmor A., Doery K., Thurber K.A., Thomas D., Guthrie J., Wells S., Lovett R. 2020 Review of tobacco use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin, 20(2). Retrieved from https://aodknowledgecentre.ecu.edu.au/learn/specific-drugs/tobacco/

Thurber, K., Walker, J., Dunbar, T., Guthrie, J., Calear, A., Batterham, P., Richardson, A., Strazdins, L., Walter, M., Doery, K. and Lovett, R., 2019. Measuring child mental health, psychological distress, and social and emotional wellbeing in the longitudinal study of indigenous children.

Salmon, M., Doery, K., Dance, P., Chapman, J., Gilbert, R., Williams, R. & Lovett, R. 2019, Defining the Indefinable: Descriptors of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Cultures and Their Links to Health and Wellbeing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Team, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra. Retrieved from https://www.lowitja.org.au/content/Image/Defining_Indefinable_report_FINAL_WEB.pdf