Network member Katherine Letley has received a full scholarship to undertake a PhD within the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research at City University, London. This project will examine the relationship between midwives and women seeking sanctuary on the Syrian Vulnerable Person's Resettlement Scheme. It will explore how this…
A big congratulations to network member Dr Kerrie Stevenson who has received £450,000 of PhD fellowship funding from the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) for a project aiming to improve maternity care for underserved migrant women in the UK. Based at University College London and the University…
Good to get this into the public domain- shocking stories of the difficulties migrant women have experienced
Gwyneth Lonergan will be speaking on Migrant women, reproductive justice, and the hostile environment during the Covid pandemic
Gwyneth has written a working paper Who is a ‘Temporary Migrant’? Deservingness, Nationalism and Migrant Access to the NHS . Published in Doctors Within Borders’ working papers collection Healthcare Mobilities & National Health Systems: Working Papers Collection. The whole collection is excellent and may be of interest.
Dr Gwyneth Lonergan, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Lancaster University is looking for volunteers for this study. Please cascade around your…
Congratulations to Gwyneth Lonergan, a member of our network who has secured a Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust at Lancaster University starting on the 1st June. She will be researching migrant women's experiences of maternity care in Leeds, Kirklees, and Manchester. A brief summary of this timely project:
Congratulations to Catherine for securing funding from the Iolanthe Trust to support her PhD exploring the maternity experiences of women who have been trafficked into the UK.
Members of the Northern Maternity Stream research network were invited to present at a conference at Oxford Brookes University last…