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Anna Madeley is a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of Northampton, Faculty of Health, Education and Society. She is a registered midwife with extensive leadership experience in both clinical and educational settings, and serves as the professional lead for the midwifery team and lead midwife for education, liaising with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. She is actively involved in teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery programmes and has begun supervising research degree students.
Education:
- PhD in Social Sciences, The Open University
- MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare, University of Oxford
- Midwifery Degree, University of Bedfordshire
- PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2020
Anna’s research and teaching focus on reproductive justice, ethics in maternity care, non-normative decision-making, home birth (particularly for women with complex needs), informed consent, midwifery education, and critical thinking. She employs qualitative methodologies, especially constructivist grounded theory and meta-ethnography, to explore how maternity systems shape choices and influence autonomy. Her work emphasizes patient agency, legal-ethical frameworks, and the translation of research into practice.
Her recent publications show a strong trend in analyzing non-standard maternity choices, barriers to water birth, and the ethical dilemmas midwives face when supporting autonomous decisions. She has contributed significantly to the literature through peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, including editing a key text on Home Birth (Elsevier, 2023).
Scientific Awards and Recognition:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020)
Anna actively peer reviews for multiple midwifery journals and serves on the editorial boards of two high-profile UK midwifery journals. She is embarking on research degree supervision and continues to lead in midwifery pedagogy and policy-informing research. While no formal lab or research team is named, her collaborative publications suggest strong interdisciplinary networks across the UK maternity research community.
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