
Position: Research Officer
School and/or Centres: POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research
Email: Kate.Doery@anu.edu.au
Kate Doery is the Senior Survey Research Officer at POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research. Kate's work includes project managing the GENERATION Study, a longitudinal study of young people in Australia as they transition to life beyond school.
Kate is interested in community-engaged research, mainly working with young people and prioritising their voices in her work. Much of Kate's work focuses on knowledge translation practices, making research accessible beyond the world of academia. Kate has worked on developing data stories and translating research findings for policy and practice on both the GENERATION and What Australia Thinks Websites.
Kate has worked as a research officer in the Social-biology research team at the Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University; the Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; and with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Team, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University. Kate has completed a Masters of Culture, Health and Medicine at the Australian National University.
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. BMJopen, 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