Judith Sunderland

Lecturer in Midwifery. Link lecturer Homerton NHS Foundation Trus

Career summary

Having worked as both a nurse and midwife Judith developed her interests in HIV and pregnancy. Judith was involved in the implementation of antenatal HIV testing in pregnancy, and the care and management of women who were diagnosed as a result of this process. During this time she undertook an MA in Refugee Studies at the university of East London. Having worked as an HIV Specialist Midwife for eight years, Judith left clinical practice and joined City University as a Midwifery Lecturer in September 2004. Judith is currently the programme Director for the BSc (hons) Midwifery Shortened Programme and is in the process of undertaking the MA in Academic Practice. Judith also works one session a week as a nurse in a young people's family planning clinic.

Qualifications

BSc Health and Community Studies University of the West of England 1996

MA Refugees Studies University of East London 2002

Post Graduate Diploma in Academic Practice City University 2007

Current Research

MA Dissertation Academic Practice: Does the transition from qualified nurse to student midwife have an impact upon learning in the clinical setting for student midwives undertaking the BSc (hons) Shortened Midwifery Programme?

Completed Research

MA Dissertation Refugee Studies: 2002
"This is My Home Now" - The Place that Community Organisations Play in the Social Support of HIV Positive Asylum Seeking and other Migrant Women in London

2001 - UK Co-ordinator - European Project "Knowledge and Attitudes of Immigrant Women to HIV & Mother-to-Child Transmission, funded by European Commission

Areas of Interests

Midwifery
Women's Health
Sexual Health and contraception with an emphasis on young people
HIV in relation to pregnancy and mother to child transmission
Migration and its impact upon access to maternity/sexual health services
Migration and its impact upon women's understanding of birth practices, HIV and sexual health

Publications

Book chapters

Sunderland J and Roth C (2008) "Supporting Pregnant Women living with HIV" in Edwins J (ed) Community Midwifery Practice Oxford Blackwell

Sunderland J (2001) " Care of the HIV Positive Pregnant Woman" in Cox C & Reyes - Hughes A (eds) Clinical Effectiveness in Practice London Macmillan

Journal publications

Sunderland J and Roth C (2005) "Infant feeding and HIV in the UK: achieving woman - centred care" British Journal of Midwifery vol 13 (8) pp 510 - 512

Lyall, H, Blott, M, De Reuiter, A, Hawkins, D, Mercy, D, Mitchla, Z, Newell, ML, O'Shea, S, Smith, R, Sunderland, J, Webb, R, Taylor, G, (2001) " The British HIV Association Guidelines for the Management of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women and the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission" HIV Medicine vol 2 pp 314 - 334

Sunderland J (2000) "Increasing Uptake of Antenatal HIV Testing in Newham Healthcare NHS Trust: The Implementation of a New Approach to Antenatal Testing" MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 10 (1) pp 31 - 34

Professional Memberships

RCN/University and College Union
Children's HIV Association