Laura Batinelli

Overview

Laura is a clinical academic midwife currently working in the Midwifery Department and in the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research at City. She has been at City since 2017 and she was initially a research midwife, then a PhD student and now midwifery lecturer. She is currently teaching full time being mainly involved in the undergraduate programme.

She is also completing her PhD and the focus of her research project is how to implement midwifery units in a European context such as Italy. She is particularly interested in what is required on an organisational, professional and cultural level to implement these models of care in a medicalised context for maternity care like the Italian one.

She has also been working clinically since 2015 in a London NHS Trust being mainly involved in intrapartum care both in the high-risk setting and in the alongside midwifery unit.

Qualifications

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

Postgraduate training

• 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

• Research midwife - NIHR KM Project, City, University of London, 2017 – 2019
• 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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