Abstract
This second yarn featuring Joanne Cory, CEO of the GI Cancer Institute and Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG), highlights the vital role of the Community Advisory Panel (CAP) in shaping clinical research. The yarn demonstrates how feedback from the CAP is deeply valued and integral to driving meaningful change, ensuring that researchers and clinicians listen to and incorporate patient perspectives.
This film is essential viewing for anyone with cancer or supporting a loved one on their cancer journey. It emphasizes why AGITG prioritises community consultation and offers a clear rationale to researchers and clinicians for designing clinical trial protocols that are informed by and responsive to the unique medical, cultural, and socioeconomic experiences of cancer patients and their carers. Through this engagement, AGITG strengthens culturally safe, patient-centred research that better meets the needs of diverse communities.
This film is essential viewing for anyone with cancer or supporting a loved one on their cancer journey. It emphasizes why AGITG prioritises community consultation and offers a clear rationale to researchers and clinicians for designing clinical trial protocols that are informed by and responsive to the unique medical, cultural, and socioeconomic experiences of cancer patients and their carers. Through this engagement, AGITG strengthens culturally safe, patient-centred research that better meets the needs of diverse communities.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Online |
| Publisher | GI Cancer Institute AGITG |
| Edition | 1 |
| Media of output | Film |
| Size | 20 min 47 sec |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2025 |
Research Statement
This extended audio-visual film, produced by Indigenous academic Madison Shakespeare and published by the GI Cancer Institute and AGITG, stands as a powerful entry in the Seedpod of Yarns series—exemplifying the impact of audio-visual storytelling as a digital communication strategy for translational medicine. The series privileges Indigenous voices and cultural frameworks in all aspects of filmmaking, enabling it to serve as a transformative intervention in health equity, actively redressing the social determinants of health impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.As one of 14 interlinked works, this film’s commissioning by leading research institutions, AGITG’s publication, and its broad digital dissemination further solidify it as an extended film/video production of 20 minutes and 47 seconds with considerable social impact and public reach, shared digitally via external partners and embedded in ongoing public health advocacy.
Through its embedded Indigenous research paradigm, Seedpod of Yarns stands as a model NTRO—showing how creative practice, in the hands of Indigenous scholars, serves both as cultural expression and methodological innovation. It demonstrates how film can function as a form of research that honours Indigenous worldviews, catalyses systemic change, and helps close the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.
Keywords
- First Nations cancer
- self-determination
- Cancer research
- indigenous health
- Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations
- cancer treatment
