A/Prof Elizabeth (Liz) Newnham is a midwifery academic with a research focus on seeking social justice solutions for humanising birth. Her 20+ year career includes clinical midwifery practice, teaching and research. She is a thought leader in the cultural and political analysis of childbirth, through four streams: birth ethics, birth technology, birth environment and birth practice. Related work includes a reconceptualising of autonomy within midwifery practice and developing care ethics concepts for relational midwifery practice. She has published widely in these areas and been an invited speaker at conferences and events around the world. Her doctoral research was published as the book Towards the humanisation of birth: A study of epidural analgesia and hospital birth culture by Palgrave MacMillan.