Yarning to meet Professor Alan Wigg

Madison Shakespeare; Luke Shakespeare

Yarning to meet Professor Alan Wigg

Madison Shakespeare
, Luke Shakespeare (Photographer)

School of Arts

Research output: Creative Works › Audio or Visual recording

Abstract

Madison Shakespeare yarns with internationally renowned Professor Alan Wigg, a leading gastroenterologist and liver cancer researcher, about his extensive professional experience working with Australian First Nations communities. This yarn provides valuable insight for researchers and healthcare clinicians into how Professor Wigg’s deep commitment to culturally proficient relationships with First Nations patients and their communities has shaped his research and clinical practice.

The conversation illuminates the compassionate, patient-centred approach Professor Wigg brings to clinical trials involving First Nations patients, emphasizing cultural safety, ethical accountability, and respect for community voices. This yarn offers Indigenous communities perspectives on the caring medical specialist behind these trials and supports healthcare professionals aiming to improve culturally responsive cancer care for First Nations Australians.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	https://gicancer.org.au/resources/seedpod-of-yarns/yarns-for-first-nations-patients-kin-and-community/
Publisher	GI Cancer Institute AGITG
Edition	1
Media of output	Film
Size	11 min 15 sec
Publication status	Published - Mar 2025

Bibliographical note

Seedpod of Yarns is a significant video resource series led by Indigenous academic and filmmaker Madison Shakespeare, a proud Gadigal saltwater woman. Over the course of a year, Madison travelled extensively across Australia yarning with First Nations patients, clinicians, and community members to explore what self-determined cancer journeys could look like for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The series, hosted by the GI Cancer Institute and Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG), focuses on gastrointestinal cancers and promotes culturally safe communication, patient-centred care, and Indigenous self-determination throughout cancer treatment and research.

Among the insightful conversations in the series is Madison Shakespeare's yarn with Professor Alan Wigg, an internationally renowned gastroenterologist and liver cancer researcher. This interview offers unique perspectives on how culturally proficient clinical practice and research with First Nations communities can be advanced through respectful partnerships and ethical engagement. Seedpod of Yarns exemplifies the use of audio-visual storytelling grounded in Indigenous research methodologies to bridge gaps between medical science and Indigenous lived experience, making it a transformative contribution to health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Research Statement

Produced by Indigenous academic Madison Shakespeare and published by the GI Cancer Institute and Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG), this short film stands as a powerful entry in the Seedpod of Yarns series—an exemplary model of how audio-visual storytelling can serve as a digital communication strategy in translational medicine. Madison Shakespeare engages in a detailed yarn with internationally renowned Professor Alan Wigg, a leading gastroenterologist and principal researcher on liver cancer impacting Australian First Nations communities.

This yarn provides crucial insights into how Professor Wigg’s extensive clinical and research experience has informed culturally proficient relationships with First Nations patients and their communities. His work emphasizes culturally safe practices and ethical engagement, particularly in clinical trials tailored to Indigenous Australians. By centering First Nations perspectives and knowledge-sharing practices, this film exemplifies the Seedpod of Yarns' foundational Indigenous research methodologies, which privilege Indigenous voices and cultural frameworks throughout the filmmaking process.

As one of 14 interlinked works, the film’s commissioning by leading research institutions, publication by AGITG, and broad digital dissemination establish it as a Standard output—a short-format film embedded within public health advocacy. Collectively, the Seedpod of Yarns series may be considered an Extended film/video production for its sustained conceptual inquiry and impact.

This work demonstrates how film can operate as a rigorous form of research that bridges medical science and the lived realities of Indigenous communities, catalyzes systemic change, and contributes to closing the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It stands as a transformative Non-Traditional Research Output (NTRO) showcasing Indigenous-led creative practice as both cultural expression and methodological innovation.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations
RCT
Clinical trials
self-determination
Indigenous Community
cancer diagnosis
cancer treatment

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