{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100772"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100772","attributes":{"code":"FT250100772","administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-06-30","anticipated-end-date":"2030-06-29","grant-summary":"Respect and cultural difference in maternity care experiences. Hospital birth plays a vital role in maternal health, yet there are critical problems with birth trauma (harmful childbirth experiences) especially among culturally diverse women and ethnic minorities. This project aims to create new understandings of how cultural beliefs and norms influence expectations and practices of health care, including how different women perceive respectful maternity care and how medical professionals respond to cultural preferences. It centres on Fiji, a multicultural society. Expected outcomes include new knowledge of what respectful care means in practice, and advice to help improve maternal health care. This should benefit Fijian and Australian organisations working on health care and gender equality.\n\n","funding-current":1025263.00,"funding-at-announcement":1002210,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Jenny","familyName":"Munro","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-4869-6986 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Jenny","familyName":"Munro","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-4869-6986 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4401","name":"Anthropology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440106","name":"Medical Anthropology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"451305","name":"Pacific Peoples Culture","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"200204","name":"Health Inequalities","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"200509","name":"Women'S and Maternal Health","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"211101","name":"Pacific Peoples Determinants of Health","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Fiji","Singapore"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Globally and in Australia, rates of birth trauma are worse for culturally diverse women and ethnic minorities. The World Health Organization’s agenda of ‘respectful maternity care’ aims to protect women’s rights and dignity, but implementation is struggling because women and health workers from different cultural backgrounds may have other ideas of what respectful care means. Health care providers also lack practical examples of how to respond to cultural difference. Taking Fiji as its focus, this project aims to investigate how maternity care is experienced differently, and what respectful or abusive care means to women and health workers in a complex, multicultural society. This project expects to advance Australia’s existing international partnership with Fiji, identify new approaches to responding to cultural difference within maternity care, and share this knowledge with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other Australian and Fijian organisations to improve birth experiences and quality of care for women in the future. This project aims to understand existing cultural meanings and experiences, and any impacts on maternal care are future benefits beyond the scope of the current project."}}}