{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100636"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100636","attributes":{"code":"DE260100636","administering-organisation":"The Australian National University","announcement-administering-organisation":"The Australian National University","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-01-01","anticipated-end-date":"2028-12-31","grant-summary":"Care economies: The First Nations disability workforce in remote Australia. This project aims to advance the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in remote First Nations communities by generating a new conceptual approach to care work centring First Nations knowledges. This first ethnographic study of First Nations communities’ engagement with the NDIS will provide new knowledge of the potential employment of First Nations caregivers in disability services and will co-design culturally resonant employment models. It will inform appropriate disability service market interventions that could be scaled up across remote Australia. Findings will build policy capacity in addressing communities’ rights to accessible, culturally safe supports, while generating locally meaningful job opportunities in remote areas. ","funding-current":532143.00,"funding-at-announcement":527927,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Stefanie","familyName":"Puszka","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-5008-8122 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Stefanie","familyName":"Puszka","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-5008-8122 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The Australian National University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"ACT"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The Australian National University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"ACT"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4401","name":"Anthropology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440106","name":"Medical Anthropology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"450401","name":"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Disability","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"210102","name":"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Wellbeing","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"210303","name":"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health System Performance","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Canada"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"The NDIS has significantly expanded access to essential care and supports to many people living with a disability by creating disability service markets. However, market failure and inequitable access have persisted, particularly in remote First Nations communities; and existing services may not provide culturally safe care, raising human and First Nations rights issues. This research will help develop the evidence base of appropriate disability service market interventions through an in-depth, collaborative study examining how First Nations caregiving practices could be integrated into disability services. It will co-design culturally resonant and safe employment models for local First Nations caregivers in disability services. In order to do so, it will engage First Nations knowledges about disability care. This project will enable policymakers to respond to key recommendations of the NDIS Review, of developing interventions to address the availability, quality and cultural safety of services. It also has the potential to make a significant contribution to the development of meaningful, remunerated employment opportunities in remote First Nations communities, where few jobs currently exist and where poverty is deepening. Through translational components including policy briefs, engaging key disability policymakers in the research and a symposium with policymaker, academic and First Nations collaborators, this project is poised to impact on Australian disability policy."}}}