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10/06/2026

🎙️ Maternity & Midwifery Hour – Live on Wednesday 10 June at 19:00 (UK)

Join us for an engaging discussion on:

Midwifery Research: Priorities, Pathways and Midwifery Involvement

We are delighted to welcome:

🔹 **Judith Field** – Research Advisor, Royal College of Midwives
🔹 **Claire Singh** – NIHR Senior Doctoral Fellow, King’s College London

This episode will explore the current priorities in midwifery research, opportunities for midwives to become involved in research, and the pathways available to develop research skills and careers. Whether you are a student midwife, practising clinician, educator, or researcher, this session will provide valuable insights into strengthening the evidence base for maternity care.

📅 Wednesday 10 June
⏰ 19:00 UK Time
📺 Live on Facebook & MATFLIX
🎤 Hosted by Sue Macdonald

Join the conversation and discover how research can shape the future of midwifery practice, education, and outcomes for women, babies, and families.

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

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MIDWIVES HAVE YOUR SAY ON LGBTQ+ MATERNITY CARE

28/05/2026

This research aims to improve the maternity care experience of LGBTQ+ birthing people by helping midwives develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours they need to offer safe and inclusive care.

LGBTQ+ people often experience discrimination or negative treatment when they use healthcare services, and this can also happen during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period. Many LGBTQ+ birthing people face extra stress because maternity services can assume that everyone is heteros*xual or that a person’s gender always matches the s*x they were assigned at birth. These assumptions, along with a lack of understanding about diverse families, can make maternity care feel unwelcoming or unsafe.

The project has two stages. Stage one will analyse data from the Birth Experience Study UK (BESt-UK), which gathers experiences from people who have given birth in the last five years. This analysis will be helpful to understand the specific experiences of LGBTQ+ people and their encounters with midwives during their maternity care. Alongside this, the study will explore what knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours midwives require to provide inclusive, affirming care.

Stage two will use insights from LGBTQ+ service users and midwives to co-design and test an online training package. This co-design approach aims to create practical, evidence-based education that supports midwives to deliver safer, more inclusive care for LGBTQ+ birthing people.

Aims
This research aims to improve the experience and outcomes of LGBTQ+ birthing people by co-designing an online training package to enhance midwives’ knowledge, attitude, skills and behaviours in caring for this group.