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Humanising Birth Symposium
Fri, 10 Nov
|Brennan Room, Shortland Lane
Are you interested in any aspect of maternal & perinatal health and wellbeing? Would you like to join an interdisciplinary research network?
Time & Location
10 Nov 2023, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Brennan Room, Shortland Lane , University Dr, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia
About the event
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'Humanising birth’ principles, developed by social science and midwifery scholars, aim to promote relationship-based care tailored to the needs of the individual woman/birthing person, while also addressing structural barriers to quality maternity care.
In this Symposium, we will first be presenting on humanising birth principles, with a keynote presentation by Professor Soo Downe, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom and Professor Lesley Page CBE, Previous President of the Royal College of Midwives and expert on Human Rights in Childbirth (virtual), and a consumer presentation, before presenting the results of a pilot study on how midwives’ views of and capacities to facilitate humanised birth are formed.
In the afternoon, we will be running a session to launch an interdisciplinary Humanising Birth Research Network (HBRN) for local, national and international health professionals, researchers and consumers interested in humanising birth initiatives,…