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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.

  • Anna is the professional lead for the midwifery team and lead midwife for education, linking to the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Anna teaches across all modules in the undergraduate midwifery programme, supporting teaching at postgraduate level and is embarking on research degree supervision post Sept 24.

  • Madeley, Anna-Marie (2024). Experiences of Women and Other Birthing People Who Make Non-Normative Choices in Childbearing: A Constructivist Grounded Theory. PhD thesis The Open University.

    Cooper, Megan; Madeley, Anna-Marie; Burns, Ethel and Feeley, Claire (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, article no. 147

    Madeley, Anna-Marie; Earle, Sarah and O’Dell, Lindsay (2023). Challenging Norms: Making Non-Normative Choices in Childbearing. Results of a Meta Ethnographic Review of the Literature. Midwifery, 116, article no. 103532

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2021). Retaining and Reclaiming Control and Autonomy in Pregnancy and Childbirth: Making Non-Normative Choices. Results of a Meta-Ethnographic Review of the Literature. Postgraduate Research Poster Competition, The Open University

    Madeley, Anna-Marie; Williams, Veronika and McNiven, Abigail (2019). An interpretative phenomenological study of midwives supporting home birth for women with complex needs. British Journal of Midwifery, 27(10) pp. 625–632

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2015). Lived Experience of midwives using Fresh Ears: A service evaluation. In: HEE/NIHR Research Conference, Jun 2015, Oxford, NIHR/ Oxford Academic Health Network

  • Madeley, Anna-Marie (Ed) (2023) Home Birth, Elsevier.

    Madeley, Anna-Marie. Rooth, Carolyn (2023) Homebirth in Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Clinical Education. Home Birth, Elsevier. P 8-20

    Feeley, Claire. Burns, Ethel. Madeley, Anna-Marie (2023) Considerations for Labour and Birth at Home in Water. Home Birth, Elsevier. P 75-82

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2023) Postnatal Care at Home. Home Birth, Elsevier. P 93-99

    Avery, Carla Jayne. Madeley, Anna-Marie (2023) Managing Emergencies at Home. Home Birth, Elsevier. P 107-129

    Madeley, Anna-Marie; Feeley, Claire (2023) Homebirth in the Presence of Complex Needs. Home Birth, Elsevier. P 145-15

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2023). Exploring informed consent in midwifery care. British Journal of Midwifery, 31(6) pp. 352–355

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2022). Request, Resistance and the Rhetoric of Choice: UK women’s experiences of expressing non-normative choice in a complex and fearful maternity system. In: 21st International Normal Labour and Birth Research Conference, 12-14 Sep 2022, Aarhus University, Denmark

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2022). No is a complete sentence. British Journal of Midwifery, 30(2) pp. 66–68

    Scammell, Mandie; Thornton, Jim; Hales, Katherine; Renfrew, Mary; Dahlen, Hannah; Jowitt, Margeret; Downe, Soo; Gilman, Lindsay; Grace, Nicky; Davis, Deborah; Madeley, Anna-Marie; Chippington, Debbie; Lawther, Lorna and Burns, Ethel (2022). Impact of a quality improvement project to reduce the rate of obstetric anal sphincter injury: a multicentre study with a stepped wedge design. OASI care bundle. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 129(1) pp. 174–175

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2021). Birth after previous caesarean section. British Journal of Midwifery, 29(11) pp. 615–619

    Madeley, Anna-Marie and Anderson, Michelle (2021). The Perinatal Midwifery Toolkit. In: Anderson, Michelle ed. Midwifery Essentials: Perinatal Mental Health. Midwifery Essentials, 1 (1). London: Elsevier, pp. 148–182

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2021). Supporting complex homebirths. The Practising Midwife, 24(3) pp. 12–14

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2021). I’m only sweeping. British Journal of Midwifery, 29(2) pp. 66–67

    Madeley, Anna-Marie (2013). Systemic lupus erythmatosus. The Practising Midwife, 16(4) pp. 21–25