Developing Cutting Edge Birth Unit Design: A Feasibility Study

Project Member(s): Fenwick, J., Homer, C., Pandolfo, B.

Start year: 2010

Summary: This study will explore video ethnography as a method of observing and analysing the effect of birth unit design on communication and behaviour.

Publications:

Foureur, M & Harte, JD 2017, 'Salutogenic Design for Birth' in Kopec, D (ed), Health and Well-Being for Interior Architecture, Taylor & Francis, New York, pp. 108-122.

Harte, JD, Homer, CSE, Sheehan, A, Leap, N & Foureur, M 2017, 'Using video in childbirth research', Nursing Ethics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 177-189.
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FOR Codes: Midwifery, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences, Women's Health, Organisational, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication, Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication, Industrial and product design, Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health), EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.