Dr Bec Jenkinson

Research Fellow

School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine

Overview

Bec Jenkinson is maternity consumer advocate-turned-researcher, with more than 10 years’ experience as a leader in the Australian maternity consumer movement, advocating for high quality, respectful, women-centred continuity of care. I am a skilled qualitative and mixed methods researcher, writer, presenter and networker with a passion for consumer and community engagement in health services, and broad experience encompassing health policy, service delivery and evaluation, and education. Bec's PhD investigated the experiences of women, midwives and obstetricians when pregnant women decline recommended care. She went on to co-lead the development and implementation of Queensland Health's Guideline: Partnering with the woman who declines recommended maternity care. Bec is now a Qualitative Research Fellow with the Australian Women and Girl's Health Research Centre, working on research projects related to weight stigma in maternity care, preconception health, and women's experiences of intrapartum care.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Education, Central Queensland University

Publications

  • Lee, Nigel, Allen, Jyai, Jenkinson, Bec, Hurst, Cameron, Gao, Yu and Kildea, Sue (2024). Response to the Letter to the Editor. Women and Birth, 37 (3) 101599, 101599. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2024.101599

  • Lee, Nigel, Allen, Jyai, Jenkinson, Rebecca, Gao, Yu and Kildea, Sue (2023). First do no harm: a single site pre-post implementation study of a perineal protection bundle. Australian College of Midwives National Conference – Be the Change, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 12-14 September 2023. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2023.07.007

  • Griffiths, Ahlia, Kingsley, Sara, Mason, Zena, Tome, Renee, Tomkinson, Malyssa and Jenkinson, Bec (2023). Listening to larger bodied women: Time for a new approach to maternity care. Women and Birth, 36 (5), 397-400. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2023.07.001

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Supervision

  • Master Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book Chapter

  • Jenkinson, Bec and Fox, Deborah (2020). Keeping the canary singing: Maternity care plans and respectful homebirth transfer. Birthing Outside the System: The Canary in the Coal Mine. (pp. 320-343) edited by Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Kumar-Hazard and Virginia Schmied. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429489853-18

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor