Laura Batinelli

Overview

Laura is a clinical academic midwife currently working full-time on her PhD. The focus of her research project is how to implement midwifery units in a European context such as Italy. She is supporting the maternity team in her hometown in Tuscany to open an alongside midwifery unit and she is particularly interested to research the organisational, professional and cultural levels of the implementation process in this type of contexts. Since 2015, she has also been working clinically in a London NHS Trust being mainly involved in intrapartum care both in the high-risk setting and in the alongside midwifery unit.

Qualifications

1. Associate Fellow (AFHEA), Advance HE, United Kingdom, Oct 2020
2. Transfer to PhD, City, University of London, England, UK, May 2020
3. Master module APM043, City, University London, United Kingdom, Aug 2018
4. Midwifery Masters, University of Florence, Italy, Mar 2015
5. BSc Midwifery, University of Siena, Italy, Nov 2013

Postgraduate training

1. Supporting the implementation and scaling-up of midwifery units in Europe: how can capacity in the maternity workforce be developed?, City, University London, London, United Kingdom, Feb 2019 – Jan 2022

Employment

1. Research midwife - NIHR KM Project, City, University of London, 2017 – 2019
2. Clinical midwife, St George's Hospital, Jul 2015 – Mar 2019

Languages

English and Italian.

1^st supervisor

• Professor Christine McCourt, Professor of Maternal and Child Health

Research students

2^nd supervisor

• Dr Lucia Rocca-Ihenacho, Lecturer in Midwifery

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