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Fiona Cram
AwardsMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Otago, Mangapapa School, Ilminster Intermediate School, Lytton High School
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
Doctoral studentsLeonie Pihama
Notable studentsSue Crengle

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.

Early life and education

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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

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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

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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

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Scholia has a profile for Fiona Cram (Q90827337).
  • 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. 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.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Fiona May Cram". Kōmako: A bibliography of writing by Māori in English. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "The Team – Homes for Generations". homesforgenerations.goodhomes.co.nz. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "Queen's Birthday Honours 2019 - Citations for Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Dr Fiona Cram | 100 Maori Leaders". 100maorileaders.com. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Katoa Ltd - Fiona Cram, PhD". www.katoa.net.nz. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Dr Fiona Cram – Homes for Generations". homesforgenerations.goodhomes.co.nz. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Maori child abuse linked to poverty and discrimination". The New Zealand Herald. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  8. ^ Pihama, Leonie (2001). Tīhei mauri ora : honouring our voices : mana wahine as a kaupapa Māori : theoretical framework (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1119.
  9. ^ Crengle, Sue (1997). Mā Papatuanuku, ka Tipu ngā Rākau: a case study of the well child health programme provided by Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust (Master's thesis thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/5995.
  10. ^ a b "Committee recommends new system to support survivors of family violence homicide". Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Victim details life-long trauma of family abuse - 'I used to lie there and let her hurt me'". RNZ. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  12. ^ "News | New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse". nzfvc.org.nz. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
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