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Dr Maria Healy

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Dr Maria Healy

Dr Maria Healy

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Dr Healy’s research focuses on promoting physiological and positive birth and postnatal experiences by enabling women access to conducive birth settings and evidenced based care. Dr Healy leads a programme of research developing, implementing and evaluating the impact of co-produced evidenced based guidelines for the admission to Midwife-led Units (MLUs) along with a Pathway of Care for Normal Labour and Birth.


She is co-project lead in the development of a regional guideline for Planning birth a Home and is an active research member in the EU COST Action IS1405 ‘BIRTH’.


Her research methods have included surveys, systematic reviews (metasynthesis and meta-analysis), phenomenology and action research. The focus of her research is to improve the childbirth experiences and outcomes for women, their babies and partners.

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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Supporting physiological birth through midwifery-led care and leadership;
  • Enabling women to give birth in midwifery-led units;
  • Continuity of midwifery carer;
  • Midwifery education

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PhD Title Flipping Breastfeeding: Exposing student midwives to breastfeeding in the social arena using a flipped classroom approach in order to influence their attitudes to breastfeeding support.
Name Mary Jo Chesnel
Country United Kingdom
Year of Study 2019-Present

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