BfiNBarnafdande i Norden

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BfiN-Barnafödande i Norden

• Childbearing in the Nordic Countries the
  qualitative research network in Caring Sciences
• The network was initiated in 2002 by Terese
  Bondas, Finland and Anita Hallgren, Sweden
• Initial planning support from NorFa and now
  supported by a Nordforsk grant 2006-2009,
• 40 members

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The aims

• Coordinate the qualitative research in
  childbearing and strive towards excellence in the
  Nordic Countries, and through collaboration bring
  creative Nordic research programmes and findings
  to the international forefront.
• Contribute to disciplinary development, and an
  impact on an innovative collaborative
  evidence-based and life world based care.
• Our intention is also to promote the use of
  qualitative childbearing research in the
  development of the health care policies in the
  Nordic countries.

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DOING AND PROMOTING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN
CHILDBEARING

• Increase researcher mobility and collaboration
  and coordinate research teams in qualitative
  childbearing research
• Identify and gather resources to make qualitative
  research programs possible
• Initiate and develop research education and
  supervision in qualitative research and attract
  new doctoral students
• Increase the publishing of research findings in
  both scientific and popular press to scientists,
  new parents and caregivers, and politicians, and
  to others who are interested.

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The qualitative research area of childbearing

• The qualitative research projects have often been
  developed without the support of research groups.
  
• There is a need for explorative, comparative,
  culturally sensitive as well as synthesized
  qualitative research to develop care.
• Changes in the life world characterize pregnancy,
  birth and the early parenthood as family events
  that often involve the grandparents, other close
  relatives and friends of the family.
  Relationships change and there are new
  relationships actualized through the family needs
  of care.
• Life world is the reality that is experienced by
  each person in her or his own way, however,
  closely related to the culture of the society.
• The increasing trend of applying risk
  perspectives to life world phenomena challenges
  the researchers in the network to ask ethical and
  critical questions in a humanistic collaborative
  research and pursue a collaborative critical
  doctoral education in the Nordic Countries.

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Research interests of the network

• Womens and mens reproductive health and
  suffering in a life cycle perspective
• Promoting parenthood
• Pregnancy, birth and postpartum care and
  identification of caring needs
• Care of the newborn and small child
• Breastfeeding and care
• Health information and care
• The development of ideas in childbearing
  professions
• -Variations exist in conceptual and theoretical
  development in relation to the development in the
  Nordic countries as well as previous claims of
  disciplines such as medicine, psychology,
  anthropology and public health. The network
  invites multi disciplinary and multi professional
  collaboration.

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Membership

• Researchers,
• Doctoral students
• Master students in the area of qualitative
  research in childbearing in the Nordic countries
• Invitations to the Baltic countries

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FINLAND BOARD MEMBERS

• Chair Terese Bondas, Finland, professor, RN
  (public health)University College of
  Borås,Sweden
• Docent at Kuopio University, Finland
• Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen, professor, RNM,
  Kuopio University
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NORWAY board members

• Gunnhild Blåka,
• professor, RNM,
• University of Bergen
• Berit Støre Brinchmann,
• associate professor, RN
• University College of Bodø

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SWEDEN Board members

• Marie Berg, SE,
• Associate professor, RNM,
• Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg
• Ingela Lundgren, SE,
• PhD, senior lecturer, RNM
• University College of Borås

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DENMARK board members

• Elisabeth Hall,
• Associate professor, RN,
• Aarhus university
• Hanne Lou, physician (gynecology and
  obstethrics), doctoral student
• Aarhus universitet

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ICELAND board member

• Ólöf Asta Ólafsdóttir,
• PhD, RNM, Head of the midwifery programme,
• University of Iceland

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Activities, BfiN (Nordforsk first year)

• Planning and research workshop (8 participants,
  all Nordic countries), Örby, Två Skyttlar,
  course centre, Sweden, 4-6.10.06
• Research course Childbearing and
  care-qualitative research in co-operation with
  Kuopio University, Finland, 18-20.4. and
  24-25.8.07, 23 participants.
• Research program, Metasynthesis of Childbearing
  in a context of risk and vulnerability, 6 network
  researchers, 2 articles accepted, 2 funding
  applications (Vetenskapsrådet, Finlands Akademi)