News

August 2023

The third publication in our suite of reviews on water immersion during labour and waterbirth: focus on organisational and multi-professionals’ perspectives:

• Cooper, M., Madeley, A. M., Burns, E., & Feeley, C. (2023). Understanding the barriers and facilitators related to birthing pool use from organisational and multi-professional perspectives: a mixed-methods systematic review. Reproductive health, 20(1), 147. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-023-01690-0

Arising from our project exploring student recruitment experiences and the experiences of Global Ethnic Majority midwifery students:

• Carina Okiki, Giada Giusmin, Jane Carpenter, Louise Hunter (2023) Choosing Midwifery − The perceptions and experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants to midwifery programmes: A mixed methods study. Nurse Education in Practice, Vol 69 103626, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103626

Ginny Mounce published a book which draws on empirical research and the broader social sciences literature to explore how experiences of IVF can affect the transition to parenthood for non-donor infertile couples:

• The Transition to Parenthood after IVF: An Introduction for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

July 2022

Analysis of research shows that using a birth pool during labour provides “clear benefits” for healthy mums and their newborn, with less intervention and fewer complications during and after the birth than when compared to labouring and giving birth on land. Mothers also report higher levels of satisfaction with their birth experience.

Dr Ethel Burns of Oxford Brookes University Faculty of Health and Life Sciences led a team of researchers, working with Dr Claire Feeley (Oxford Brookes), Dr Priscilla Hall (Emory University, USA) and Dr Jennifer Vanderlaan (University of Nevada, USA). The research looking at 157,546 sets of mothers and babies was published in the journal BMJ Open. 

November 2020

Alessandra Morelli was responsible for the set up and management contributed to later stages of the study design and analysis of the BRIDGE-IT study in South East London - published in 2020 in the Lancet:

• Cameron, S. T., Glasier, A., McDaid, L., Radley, A., Baraitser, P., Stephenson, J., ... & Norrie, J. (2020). Use of effective contraception following provision of the progestogen-only pill for women presenting to community pharmacies for emergency contraception (Bridge-It): a pragmatic cluster-randomised crossover trial. The Lancet, 396(10262), 1585-1594. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31785-2/fulltext