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  • Anna is a registered midwife with significant experience as a senior midwife leader across clinical and educational settings. Anna studied Midwifery at the University of Bedfordshire, later obtaining an MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare awarded from the University of Oxford, focusing on evidence-based healthcare, study design and research methods, medical statistics, evidence-based screening and diagnostics and qualitative research methods. My thesis explored the experiences of midwives supporting women with complex needs (biopsychosocial) who choose to give birth at home. Anna completed her PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education in 2020 and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the same year.

    Anna has worked extensively across various midwifery settings and complexities, including the Labour Ward, Postnatal and Antenatal wards, DAU and Community, and as a Practice Development Midwife, establishing and running a homebirth team and for a short period post PhD, as a Consultant Midwife.

    Annas doctoral work explored motivations and experiences of women constructing decisions to make non-normative (out of guideline, declining care or intervention/ requesting non-indicated care/ interventions or social norms) and the underlying processes accompanying those decisions. By exploring these issues using constructivist grounded theory, she exposed how maternity services influence choices, informing strategic direction, policy and guidance. Anna has keen interests in reproductive justice, incorporating legal, ethical, and regulatory underpinnings supporting choices within a contemporary maternity setting.

    Annas research and teaching interests extend to full scope midwifery care, reproductive justice, ethics and choice, complex care planning, home birth, institutional and reproductive human rights, midwifery education and pedagogy, simulated homebirth, critical thinking, research knowledge translation, and decision-making in childbearing.

    Anna peer reviews for several journals and sits of the editorial board of two high profile midwifery journals in the United Kingdom.