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  • Fatima qualified as a midwife in 2012 from University of Brescia, Italy.

    After moving to the UK, in 2015 commenced her NHS career. Fatima has worked across various midwifery settings and complexities, consolidating her clinical experience.

    She covered managerial and leadership roles delivering the national agenda of Continuity of Carer with expertise around diversity and health inequalities in maternity care. The achieved work was awarded in 2021 by the Royal Collage of Midwives Award: RACE MATTER

    Following her passion for travelling and global health, in 2018 she volunteered for a short period with the MPILO LIFE PROJECT, in Zimbabwe. In 2022 she decided to leave her permanent NHS roles and embarked on a new adventure working as International Midwifery Educator in India.

    Fatima joined the University of Northampton in September 2023, and she had the opportunity to be a visiting lecturer in midwifery and public health at Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland in 2024.

  • Fatima teaches across all modules in the undergraduate midwifery programme. She leads on Developing Midwifery Care in year 2.

  • Ghaouch, F. and Sibanda, S (2021).  “WE HAVE A DREAM: Midwives making change”. The Practicing Midwife 24(1) pp. 14-17.

    S. Barontini, A. Louki, F. E. Ghaouch et al. (2017). Bridging Mediterranean cultures in the International Year of Soils 2015: a documentary exhibition on irrigation techniques in water scarcity conditions. Hydrology Research 48(3) pp 789 -801.

    M.Guana, A.Porro, F.E Ghaouch et al. (2011). I simboli dei Collegi e delle Associazioni: storia ed attualità. In: 32nd National Federation of Midwives Colleges Congress. The midwife and professional in the European Union, 19-21 May 2011, Bologna, Italy.