Maternity Care and Women's Health
Maternity care and women’s health
This cluster brings together researchers working in the field of midwifery and women’s health. The work has focused on the outcomes of labour specifically comparing foetal cardiotopography with intermittent auscultation during labour; women's views and experiences of maternity care, women's health; methods of foetal heart monitoring and the history of child birth.
Research Projects
2004-2008 ADCAR study comparing foetal cardiotopography with intermittent auscultation during labour. Funder HRB
2008-Cochrane Systematic Review on ’Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Shortening Labour’.
2008
Cochrane Systematic review on ’Scheduled versus infant-led breastfeeding for healthy newborns’
2006
Evaluating foetal monitoring education programs (HRB)
2006 Midwifery led and other models of care for child bearing women (HRB)