Birth spaces & Maternity Units: Co-produced architectural design guidance grounded in user experience & communicated in accessible media

奖学金的两个相关目标是：1)通过撰写文章巩固我的博士研究成果，并在高影响力期刊上发表文章，为自己建立一个公开的跨学科研究学术形象；2)通过与利兹利益相关者共同制作的无障碍媒体传播博士的12条实用建议，实现潜在的改进生育空间设计指导。我的博士学位为分娩空间设计确定了一个新的跨学科研究议程，该研究以女性分娩的社会、感官、身体和情感体验为基础。该奖学金在影响政策和设计指导的内容和实施方面具有很高的影响潜力。英国目前的设计工具，如“更好的生育环境审计工具包”（Newburn & Singh， 2003年a）和“健康建筑说明09-02”（卫生部，2013年），现在与个性化和以妇女为中心的护理生育政策方案(“更好的生育”（国家生育审查，2016年）不一致。迄今为止，助产研究人员一直引领着生育环境研究议程（例如Fahy， Foureur & Hastie, 2008）。这一新议程将促进劳动妇女在通常复杂的医疗保健建筑中的空间代理，并挑战助产士和医疗保健建筑师对分娩环境的纪律假设。博士学位与以女性为中心的护理原则保持一致，并对生育政策目标（选择、控制、护理和个性化护理的连续性）和建筑设计原则进行了空间洞察。12个实用的设计建议重视生育妇女的不同做法，在所有类型的分娩场所和分娩经历。研究结果表明，当劳动妇女可以自由选择使用空间时，她们采用的策略允许她们同时生产和消费空间——论文称之为“生产”和“策划”空间。生育妇女对生育空间的社会方面有着强烈的体验，她们重视自己在决定何时在空间之间移动的能动性。论文批评了英国产科单位的主要设计工具——三个核心英国政策/设计指导文件（NCT改善生育环境审计工具包，卫生部健康建设说明09-02和改善生育生育政策文件）；解读24位女性的绘画和访谈记录，以识别生育女性的空间实践。我的理想定位是完成ERSC博士后奖学金，成为一名成熟的建筑和产科从业者，并成功完成生育空间建筑的博士学位。拟议活动的独创性-以有趣，跨学科和有影响力的目标计划-反映了我的从业者职业背景。完成后，该奖学金将使我成为一名独立的跨学科研究人员和生育空间知识的领导者。它将给整个英国和国际参与研究的社区带来好处。我将在高影响力排名的跨学科期刊上发表3篇博士论文和我的发现，以建立出版记录。我将在利兹大学的社会学与社会政策学院做客。在这里，我将与探索医疗保健患者体验的学者合作，评估创新的卫生技术/服务，并将工作传播给一系列利益相关者（患者，临床医生和政策制定者）。利兹土木工程学院和媒体与传播学院的世界级设施将为我和利兹的利益相关者提供设施，根据博士的建议共同制作3D建筑模型和可访问的媒体。这些将在计划的最终奖学金展示中与利益相关者、受益人、学者和外部组织分享。我将利用利兹大学和白玫瑰博士中心的培训来提高我的跨学科研究水平；教授新成立的跨学科建筑工程专业。

The 2 linked fellowship aims are: 1) to establish a published & interdisciplinary research-based academic profile for myself through articles written to consolidate my PhD findings & published in high-impact journals; 2) to realise potential improved birth space design guidance by communicating the PhD's 12 practical recommendations in accessible media co-produced with Leeds-based stakeholders. My doctorate identifies a new interdisciplinary research agenda for birth space design grounded in women's social, sensory, physical & emotional experiences of birth. This fellowship has high impact potential for influencing the content & delivery of policy & design guidance. Current UK design tools, e.g. Better Birth Environment Audit Toolkit (Newburn & Singh, 2003a) & Health Building Note 09-02 (Department of Health, 2013) are now out of line with personalised & woman-centred care maternity policy programmes (Better Births (National Maternity Review, 2016). Midwifery researchers have so far led the birth environment research agenda (e.g. Fahy, Foureur & Hastie, 2008). This new agenda will facilitate labouring women's spatial agency within often complex healthcare buildings & challenge disciplinary assumptions about the birth environment made by midwives & healthcare architects. The doctorate aligns with woman-centred care principles & develops spatial insights into maternity policy goals (choice, control, continuity of carer & personalised care) & architectural design principles. The 12 practical design recommendations value childbearing women's diverse practices, across all types of birth venues & childbirth experiences. The findings show that when labouring women are free to use spaces as they choose, they employ strategies which allow them to simultaneously produce & consume space - the thesis calls this 'prosuming' & 'curating' space. Social aspects of birth spaces are strongly experienced by childbearing women who value their agency in deciding when they move between spaces. The thesis critiques the main UK design tools for maternity units - three core UK policy/design guidance documents (NCT Better Birth Environment Audit Toolkit, Department of Health Health-Building Note 09-02 & Better Births maternity policy document); & interprets twenty-four women's drawings & interview transcripts to identify childbearing women's spatial practices. I am ideally positioned to complete the ERSC postdoctoral fellowship as a well-established architectural & maternity practitioner with a successful doctorate completion on the architecture of birth spaces. The originality of the proposed activities - planned with interesting, interdisciplinary & impactful objectives - reflects my practitioner career context. On completion, the fellowship will establish me as an independent interdisciplinary researcher & birth spaces knowledge leader. It will bring benefits to the community who participated in the study, across the UK & internationally. I will publish 3 doctorate chapters & my findings in high-impact ranked interdisciplinary journals to establish a publishing track record. I will be hosted in the School of Sociology & Social Policy at Leeds University. Here, I will work with scholars who explore patient experiences of healthcare, evaluate innovative health technologies/services & disseminate work to a range of stakeholders (patients, clinicians & policy makers).World-class facilities in the Leeds' School of Civil Engineering & School of Media & Communication will provide facilities for me & Leeds-based stakeholders to co-produce 3D architectural models & accessible media from the PhD's recommendations. These will be shared with stakeholders, beneficiaries, academics & external organisations in the planned final fellowship showcase. I will use Leeds University & White Rose Doctoral Centre training to enhance my interdisciplinary research profile; & teach on the newly-formed interdisciplinary architectural engineering programme.