- Batinelli, L., Thaels, E., Leister, N., McCourt, C., Bonciani, M. and Rocca-Ihenacho, L. (2022). What are the strategies for implementing primary care models in maternity? A systematic review on midwifery units. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22(1). doi:10.1186/s12884-022-04410-x.
- Rayment, J., Rocca-Ihenacho, L., Newburn, M., Thaels, E., Batinelli, L. and Mcourt, C. (2020). The development of midwifery unit standards for Europe. Midwifery, 86, pp. 102661–102661. doi:10.1016/j.midw.2020.102661.
- Walker, S., Batinelli, L., Rocca-Ihenacho, L. and McCourt, C. (2018). ‘Keeping birth normal’: Exploratory evaluation of a training package for midwives in an inner-city, alongside midwifery unit. Midwifery, 60, pp. 1–8. doi:10.1016/j.midw.2018.01.011.
- Batinelli, L., Serafini, A., Nante, N., Petraglia, F., Severi, F.M. and Messina, G. (2018). Induction of labour: clinical predictive factors for success and failure. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 38(3), pp. 352–358. doi:10.1080/01443615.2017.1361388.
Contact details
Address
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
About
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.
Research
1st supervisor
- Professor Christine McCourt, Professor of Maternal and Child Health
Research students
2nd supervisor
- Dr Lucia Rocca-Ihenacho, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery