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Professor Christopher Lawrence is an Aboriginal health and wellbeing researcher. He has a background in education and postgraduate research degrees with a Masters of Applied Epidemiology and a PhD in Indigenous health and lifestyle choices. Professor Lawrence has been a Chief Investigator on many research grants including an NHMRC Tripartite study exploring Indigenous Resilience in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He was also the 2008-2009 Australian-American Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship recipient and studied at Harvard University. In 2016 Professor Lawrence was awarded an Australian Research Council grant to explore how technology can help close the gap. Professor Lawrence was the Head of the Centre for Indigenous Technology Research and Development in the School of Software at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor Lawerence is now the Associate Dean Indigenous in the Faculty of Information Technology.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Projects
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Protic III : Protic III - Information Empowered Communities and Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Global South
Frings, V. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Oliver, G. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Hossain, M. K. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Lawrence, C. (Chief Investigator (CI))
14/10/24 → 31/12/29
Project: Research
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SoundSmiles: SoundSmiles: an innovative digital solution to help close the gap on Aboriginal child and youth mental health through co-design.
Lawrence, C. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Eikelboom, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Soon, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Myers, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Krishna, A. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/04/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Cybersecurity: Putting Indigenous Peoples First
Oliver, G., Lawrence, C., Timbery, N., Lilley, S., Rudolph, C., Whitty, M. & Saha, M., Oct 2024, Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2024. O'Brien, H. & Abbas, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Somerset NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 61. p. 616-620 5 p. (Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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On being iIterated: The affective demands of design participation
Dourish, P., Lawrence, C., Leong, T. W. & Wadley, G., 2020, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Bjørn, P. & Zhao, S. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 11 p. 418Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Open Access39 Citations (Scopus) -
Designing for diversity in Aboriginal Australia: Insights from a national technology project
Leong, T. W., Lawrence, C. & Wadley, G., 2019, Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI’19). Donovan, J. & Perrault, S. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 418-422 5 p. 115Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus) -
Indigenous HCI workshop at ozCHI 2019, perth
Lawrence, C., Leong, T. W., Brereton, M., Taylor, J. L., Bidwell, N. & Wadley, G., 2 Dec 2019, Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI’19). Donovan, J. & Perrault, S. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 17-19 3 p. 65Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
7 Citations (Scopus) -
#thismymob: Preserving and promoting indigenous Australian cultural heritage
Fredericks, J. & Lawrence, C., 2018, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Mobile Access to Cultural Heritage co-located with 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2018). Castagnos , S., Kuflik , T., Lykourentzou, I. & Wallace, M. (eds.). Aachen Germany: CEUR-WS, 7 p. (Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Mobile Access to Cultural Heritage co-located with 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2018); vol. 2176).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research
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