The Graffitti Method

Tracy, SK

The Graffitti Method

Tracy, SK

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Publisher:: Elsevier
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Women and Birth, 2005, 18 (3), pp. 22 - 26
Issue Date:: 2005-01

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dc.contributor.author	Tracy, SK	en_US
dc.date.issued	2005-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Women and Birth, 2005, 18 (3), pp. 22 - 26	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1871-5192	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/4536
dc.description.abstract	During the years 1999-2002 a national three-year research project was undertaken in Australia to investigate both the perceived barriers to the provision of previous termmidwiferynext term care within maternity services, and the strategies to overcome these barriers. At the start, the researchers on the Australian previous termMidwiferynext term Action Project (AMAP 2003) were confronted with a seemingly impossible task. The question was: how to access and engage a cross section of the Australian previous termmidwiferynext term workforce who represented the profession across the breadth of the continent? There are approximately 10,000 practicing midwives currently working in Australia, and they are scattered over a country that encompasses eight state and territory boundaries, and a land mass the size of Europe. With an objective to enlist the responses of the widest possible sample of midwives and being mindful of their busy day to day lives, we chose a method that fits closest to the metaphorical notion of graffiti. We saw graffiti as the tool for describing how we connect with the complex reality within and around us at a certain moment within our existence.	en_US
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Women and Birth	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	en_US
dc.title	The Graffitti Method	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	18	en_US
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pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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Abstract:

During the years 1999-2002 a national three-year research project was undertaken in Australia to investigate both the perceived barriers to the provision of previous termmidwiferynext term care within maternity services, and the strategies to overcome these barriers. At the start, the researchers on the Australian previous termMidwiferynext term Action Project (AMAP 2003) were confronted with a seemingly impossible task. The question was: how to access and engage a cross section of the Australian previous termmidwiferynext term workforce who represented the profession across the breadth of the continent? There are approximately 10,000 practicing midwives currently working in Australia, and they are scattered over a country that encompasses eight state and territory boundaries, and a land mass the size of Europe. With an objective to enlist the responses of the widest possible sample of midwives and being mindful of their busy day to day lives, we chose a method that fits closest to the metaphorical notion of graffiti. We saw graffiti as the tool for describing how we connect with the complex reality within and around us at a certain moment within our existence.

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