Midwifery

The Midwifery programme from University of Brighton is open to a wide variety of research questions and designs.

Midwifery Midwifery Staff and PhD students at  University of Brighton University of Brighton offer a community of learning which allows pertinent issues in maternity and midwifery to be explored. As such the area fosters research into specific clinical practice and effects of patterns of care, the midwife/family relationship, midwifery practice, and historical perspectives. Research may be qualitative or quantitative approaches, or explore mixed methods.

Key facts

• PhD students in Nursing and in Midwifery take an active role in a range of intellectual and social activities within the university. All postgraduate students are integrated into Centres of Research and Enterprise Excellence (COREs) or Research and Enterprise Groups (REGs). These provide you with a community of like-minded scholars and practitioners and give opportunities to present ‘work in progress’ and network with other researchers.

• We provide PhD students with opportunities to work across and gain context from the spectrum of Health Sciences. We believe that this interdisciplinary focus provides our students with an appreciation of real-world problems, and ensures that they are highly employable.

• PhD students are provided with a forum for discussion of research activities, for sharing expertise in methods and research approaches and to offer support to all those undertaking or wishing to undertake research in the broad areas of nursing and midwifery. We support all members associated with the area in their research activities, help colleagues with conference presentation preparation, with research planning and publication activities as well as grant applications.

Our expert supervision for a Midwifery PhD will allow projects to develop on any aspects of midwifery and maternity care, including:

• public health in maternity

• women’s experiences of care

• exercise in pregnancy

• the midwifery workforce

• historical approaches to a range of questions in midwifery