National Review of Nursing Education

Midwifery Education

Literature Review and Additional Material (Revised Edition)

Authors

Nicky Leap RM, MSc (UK) DM candidate

Nicky Leap is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Family Health and Midwifery and she teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is also a Visiting Scholar in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide. Nicky Leap is involved in curriculum development, teaching and research at her two university posts. Nicky has presented and published widely on midwifery and has gained an international reputation.

Examples of her relevant publications include:

Innovations in Postgraduate Midwifery Education: Responding to the identified needs of the profession
ACMI Bachelor of Midwifery Education Taskforce
The Introduction of ‘Direct Entry’ Midwifery Courses in Australian Universities: Issues, Myths and a Need for Collaboration.

Nicky’s doctoral studies are focused on Australian midwifery education and are entitled ‘Challenge and Change: Educating for Contemporary Midwifery in Australia’. Professor Lesley Barclay is her supervisor. She also works part time as a midwife in the Birth Centre, St George Hospital, Kogarah, Sydney.

Lesley Barclay RN RM BA MEd PhD FCNA FACMI

Lesley Barclay is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Family Health and Midwifery, University of Technology, Sydney and Principal Investigator of the Midwifery Practice and Research Centre, a NH&MRC Centre of Excellence.

Lesley Barclay is Australia’s leading authority on midwifery education and has published extensively on the history and developmental needs of the midwifery profession and Australian midwifery education for over a decade. This was the subject of her Masters in Education by research in the early 1980s and has remained a research interest from this time.

Lesley’s publications include:

The education of midwives in Australia: Current trends and future directions;
Where to now? Issues for Australian Midwives;
What are the origins of the regulation, training and practice of midwifery in Australia?

She has examined theses for 14 universities in Australia and overseas in the disciplines of medicine, sociology [of health], nursing, public health and primary health care, midwifery and education.

Co-Authors

Pat Brodie RN CM BaHsc (Nsg) MN DM candidate - Senior Research Midwife

Elizabeth Nagy BA Dip Ed Grad Dip Psych - Researcher

Athena Sheehan RN CM BN MN - Senior Research Midwife

Sally Tracy RGON CM AdvDip BNURS MA – Senior Research Midwife

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