Mark Lock (Ngiyampaa)
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Mark Lock (Ngiyampaa)
@drmjlock.bsky.social
Critical analysis of cultural safety literature. Retired. Cycling nut (pic is top of L'Alpe D'Huez). First Nations Australian. Love research! (BSc, Hons, MPH, PhD). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9810-6086
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Journal Articles. More superficial research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39787721/, with no definition, theoretical unpacking, methodology implications, & unsupported statements about cultural safety/humility. #culturalsafety
June 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Journal Articles. This is a superficial article, ro.ecu.edu.au/aihjournal/v..., like a fruit sticker, the cultural safety sticker is used in research tokenistically: no empirical, intellectual, or methodological discussion of #culturalsafety. Nice research though!
May 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Great pic of your cattle dog, always brings me found memories of my dogs on the farm in Narromine, so long ago..these two cuties so hello to your dog:)
May 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety articles. This junk "research" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... is superficial, with poor logical arguments, a dodgy method, many propositional faults, a silly reference (Hall 2021), & low strategic value. #culturalsafety
May 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Research. This www.publish.csiro.au/py/py15050 prime example of cultural safety tokenism, no ethics reported, no research governance oversight, poor survey methodology, confirmation bias, demonstrates disrespect for research processes, pay $35! #culturalsafety
May 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Back after Easter. Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Journal Articles. This is superficial research doi.org/10.1016/j.wo... because of no intellectual, theoretical, methodological, or empirical justification for the use of cultural safety; how is it linked to cultural capability? #culturalsafety
May 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Journal Articles. This 1994 article ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/acs/article/... links reflexivity, action research, & cultural safety - the 1st to do so. Also, Eckermann et al.'s (1992) 'Binaan Goonj' has the 1st Australian definition of cultural safety. #culturalsafety
April 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Articles. Although not a research article, this perspective on critical reflection from 4 non-First Nations peoples is a good (sensitive, respectful, honest, & genuine) read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #culturalsafety
April 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Journal Articles. This superficial article, doi.org/10.24083/apj..., stunning lack of rigour, made-up definition of cultural safety, lax literature review, absence of positionality & reflexivity. Opinion dressed up as research. #culturalsafety
April 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Lovely recent visit to the Keukenhoff keukenhof.nl to see the tulips. They are just amazing.
April 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Journal Articles. ler.scholasticahq.com/article/1177.... State "Indigenous cultural safety, previously termed cultural competency"🥵, this is wrong. Understandable given politics of cultural competence elites (incl. First Nations peoples). #culturalsafety
March 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Journal Articles. Superficial #culturalsafety: bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...., shows how academics stick together different cultural concepts, e.g., cultural security/cultural safety, without any theoretical grounds = cultural norm in research.
March 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Lovely "Spring" (9 degrees) ride from Delft to Woerden and return (110km), in the Netherlands. Kasteel Woeren details: kasteelwoerden.nl, picture of my Tout Terrain Blue Ridge Explorer GT, a wonderful bike. 🚴‍♂️🌞🏰🇳🇱
March 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Tracking Australian cultural safety research. www.rrh.org.au/journal/arti... Superficial: Ignores Aus literature, assume staff attitudes=org climate, Carr survey nothing to do with culture, no community views, no First Nations governance, simplistic propositions. #culturalsafety
March 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Tracking Australian Cultural Safety Articles. #openaccess journal.law.uq.edu.au/index.php/uq... Poor lit review, cultural safety used as a buzz word, no rigorous intellectual arguments re: subconcepts (power, identity, colonisation, etc.), a respectful First Nations research process👍 #culturalsafety
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Tracking Australian cultural safety articles. ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/article... #culturalsafety poor effort (intellectual, philosophical, methodological, & empirical) linking reflexivity+cultural safety; Aboriginalism narrative; reflexivity is self-taught, self-described, and self-awarded.
February 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Tracking Australian cultural safety articles. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #culturalsafety #openaccess Another personal reflection, cringy Aboriginalism, usual facile messages, 2 citations, no genuine link with cultural safety & reflexivity, need more than "acknowledging" bias etc.
February 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Tracking Australian cultural safety research. Racism and cultural safety for Indigenous general practice trainees: An exploratory study of how to support training, careers and professional wellbeing. #culturalsafety www.lowitjajournal.org.au/article/S294...
February 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Tracking Australian cultural safety articles. Finding junk research (no reported ethics, poor methodology, ethnocentrism, combining cultural competence+cultural safety & Aboriginal+multicultural) - yet cited 31 times as "evidence". #culturallyunsafe #culturalsafety
February 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Tracking Australian cultural safety articles. “services should provide approaches to care and treatment that are defined by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and . . . by [not] imposing definitions on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people” (p. 211). #culturalsafety
February 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
❤️ #openaccess All literature reviews should do this "It was guided, critiqued and supported by the Aboriginal Knowledge Holders who enabled this review". Didn't use the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Quality Appraisal Tool 😥 Conveys lived experience and authentic voices. #culturalsafety
February 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Tracking cultural safety articles in Australia. The first one is this 1991 article pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1543466/ (Cultural danger or cultural safety: remote area health services). That's a pic of the Binaa Goonj mob who did decades of cultural training. I love reading their book! #culturalsafety
February 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Diversity is good. I like the bit in your paper "the concept of ‘cultural safety’ is to ensure Indigenous cultural values, strengths and differences are respected and the impacts of colonization, such as racism and inequity, are addressed." Is a theoretical principle "subjectivity"?
January 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM