Fiona Cram
New Zealand social psychologist
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Fiona May Cram MNZM is a New Zealand social psychologist and researcher, of Ngāti Pāhauwera descent. In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cram was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand, for services to Māori health and education.
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Otago |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social psychology |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
| Doctoral students | Leonie Pihama |
| Notable students | Sue Crengle |
Early life and education
Cram was born in Gisborne, and attended Mangapapa Primary School, Ilminster Intermediate and Lytton High School.[1] She is of Māori descent, and affiliates to Ngāti Pāhauwera.[2] Cram completed a Bachelor of Arts, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychology and a PhD at the University of Otago in social and developmental psychology.[1]
Research career
Cram joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1990 as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology, and from 1998 until 2003 she was director of the university's International Research Institute for Māori and Indigenous Education.[3][1] Cram also held a position as a visiting research fellow at the Otago School of Medicine in Wellington, at the Eru Pomare Māori Health Research Centre.[3] In 2003 Cram set up Katoa Limited, which conducts Kaupapa Māori research, evaluation and training.[2] Her research interests include Māori justice, education and health, Māori and science, and Māori language.[2][4][5][6][7] Cram's notable students include Leonie Pihama and Sue Crengle.[8][9]
Cram has been on the board of the Health Research Council, as well as sitting on a number of committees, including the Māori Health Research Committee and the Public Health Research Committee. She has served as the editor in chief of the journal Evaluation Matters - He Take To Te Aromatawai, published by the New Zealand Association for Educational Research.[3] As of 2023 she is the chair of Te Tāhū Hauora (the Health Quality and Safety Commission)'s Family Violence Death Review Committee.[10][11] In 2023 the committee released their eighth report, which recommended a new system be set up to better support child survivors of family violence resulting in death.[10][12]
Honours and awards
In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cram was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand, for services to Māori health and education.[3] She has been named as one of 100 Māori leaders recognised 'for their contributions, service, vision, dedication and expertise towards constructive change and improvement to Māori health'.[4]
Selected works
- Bridget Robson; Gordon Purdie; Fiona Cram; Shirley Simmonds (14 May 2007). "Age standardisation - an indigenous standard?". Emerging Themes in Epidemiology. 4: 3. doi:10.1186/1742-7622-4-3. ISSN 1742-7622. PMC 1876455. PMID 17498317. Wikidata Q35808523.
- Charrissa Makowharemahihi; Beverley A. Lawton; Fiona Cram; Tina Ngata; Selina Brown; Bridget Robson (2 May 2014). "Initiation of maternity care for young Maori women under 20 years of age". The New Zealand Medical Journal. 127 (1393): 52–61. ISSN 0028-8446. PMID 24816956. Wikidata Q45919703.
- Anna Adcock; Fiona Cram; Bev Lawton; et al. (7 January 2019). "Acceptability of self-taken vaginal HPV sample for cervical screening among an under-screened Indigenous population". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 59 (2): 301–307. doi:10.1111/AJO.12933. ISSN 0004-8666. PMID 30614524. Wikidata Q90916584.
- Evelyn J MacDonald; Stacie E Geller; Nokuthaba Sibanda; et al. (22 December 2020). "Reaching under-screened/never-screened indigenous peoples with human papilloma virus self-testing: A community-based cluster randomised controlled trial". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. doi:10.1111/AJO.13285. ISSN 0004-8666. PMID 33350455. Wikidata Q104555841.
- Jacqueline Short; Fiona Cram; Michael Roguski; Rachel Smith; Jane Koziol-McLain (23 August 2019). "Thinking differently: Re-framing family violence responsiveness in the mental health and addictions health care context". International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 28 (5): 1206–1216. doi:10.1111/INM.12641. ISSN 1445-8330. PMID 31441998. Wikidata Q92813985.
- Liza K. Edmonds; Fiona Cram; Matthew Bennett; et al. (13 June 2022). "Hapū Ora (pregnancy wellness): Māori research responses from conception, through pregnancy and 'the first 1000 days' – a call to action for us all". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 52 (4): 318–334. doi:10.1080/03036758.2022.2075401. ISSN 0303-6758. PMID 39440319. Wikidata Q117579389.
- Beverley Lawton; Francesca Storey; Nokuthaba Sibanda; Matthew Bennett; Charles Lambert; Stacie Geller; Liza Edmonds; Fiona Cram (29 January 2021). "He Korowai Manaaki (Pregnancy Wraparound Care): Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial". JMIR Research Protocols. 10 (1): e18154. doi:10.2196/18154. ISSN 1929-0748. PMC 7880808. PMID 33512321. Wikidata Q117579391.
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