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Sam Chenery-Morris

Associate Professor, University of Suffolk

Are educators and practising midwives working together to support the future workforce?

Prior to 2019, practice staff were largely involved in midwifery education through a ‘mentorship’ arrangement, which saw each student midwife assigned to a specific ‘sign-off’ mentor who they were...

The pay and conditions debate: the reality of the working environment in midwifery higher education

The average starting salary for a lecturer in the UK is £34 308 (University and College Union (UCU), 2023). This is less than the £35 392 received at entry step point for Band 6 midwives (NHS...

The diversity debate: is midwifery higher education addressing the challenges of systemic racism?

The RCM has been sending freedom of information requests to UK universities since 2010. However, their request in 2023 (which formed the basis of the subsequent report on which this series is based)...

The gender debate: is midwifery education ‘women's work’?

Senior management and leadership in the NHS in the UK have long been described as the ‘snowy white peaks of the NHS’ (Kline, 2014), acknowledging the race inequalities therein. Crucially, this is an...

Midwifery higher education: who are we and who do we teach?

In March 2023, the professional body for midwives, the RCM (2023), sent freedom of information requests to the 55 UK universities providing midwifery education at the time, to gather data for the...

An evidence-based toolkit to support grading of pre-registration midwifery practice

It is well documented (Heaslip and Scammell, 2012; Bennett and McGowan, 2014) that grading practice is not an easy task and can be open to subjectivity, ambiguity, confusion and grade inflation...

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