Florence Darling

Overview

Florence is a PhD student in the Centre for Maternal and Child Health. Florence joined in October 2016 on three year funded PhD studentship with the Worshipful Company of Saddlers. Florence is a registered midwife. The last position held by her was as a lead midwife of a birth centre at a NHS Trust.

She currently is a member of the stakeholder advisory group for the CHERISH project. She is also a research fellow on the QMNC research priority 3 project to develop a tools registry.

Research overview
Florence is into her 6th at City and her research aims to understand the influences of facilitators and barriers on the implementation of a physiological approach in obstetric setting. She explores these influences at an organisational leadership, professional groups and individual levels.

Research areas
- Physiological Birth

Research centre
- Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research

PhD Supervisors
- Professor Chris McCourt (City University of London)
- Dr Martin Cartwright (City University of London)

Qualifications
BSc (First) in Midwifery -City University of London
MSc in Public Health -London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
MSc in Clinical Research Methods - Kingston and St George's University of London.

Qualifications

• BSc in Midwifery (First), City University of London, United Kingdom

Postgraduate training

• MSc in Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
• MSc in Clinical Research Methods,, Kingston and St Georges University of London, London, United Kingdom

Languages

English (can read, write, speak and peer review), Malay (can read and write) and Tamil (can speak).

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