2025/07/22 by Ruhe, Troy, Bowden, Nicholas, Lucas, Albany +2
#Cultural research #Pacific health research #Quantitative research #Tivaivai
paper · doi:10.26021/15930
Although quantitative studies have a great deal to offer for Pacific health research, many findings have potential for deficit-framing and polarising for the communities they describe. There is a growing body of Pacific research frameworks but still few that focus on analyses that apply to quantitative studies, and even fewer considering a movement toward ethnicspecific research, thus incorporating current understandings around issues of Pacific data sovereignty and other ethical considerations. The aim of this paper is to extend our previously reported Tivaivai research framework (Kokaua et al., 2020), which was developed to ensure a Pacific worldview was integrated into analysing administrative data. In this paper, we generalise its applicability to an interdisciplinary setting. It is hoped that this paper may provide a starting point for other quantitative Pacific research projects involving administrative or other big data. It also provides a potential blueprint for any researchers, not only Cook Islanders and Pacific researchers, to be explicit about the values, principles, and connections we wish to uphold for the communities we study.