Hi, my name is Tahira Mumtaz, and I’m a final-year PhD student at the University of Bradford. I am researching the lived experiences of forced migrant women regarding their childbirth cultural traditions during the perinatal period. My work explores the barriers these women face in practising their traditions while navigating…
Today we are celebrating Dr Mabel Lie's ERicar project. The ERicar zine was part of a community-based research project with Czech-Slovak Roma mothers. The project consisted of a series of workshops in which pregnancy stories were explored to inform an antenatal information resource. The zine was used to bring together…
Materiality, Memory, Motherhood & Migration is an interdisciplinary project exploring material culture as part of a methodological approach in working with asylum seeking and refugee women. The aim is to explore women’s experiences of their transition to motherhood in an inclusive way, by placing the stories of women who have…
We would like to invite you to our first Migrants' Maternal Health Conference 2024!
For our Maternity Mates doula project. Please see the link to join up on the link below
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…
The Northern Maternity Stream research has expanded to become a National network. We welcome new members from across the country who share our research interests around improving maternity care for migrant women. They also share our ethos around the 'expert by experience' being central to our research.
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…
'A review of perinatal social support interventions for asylum seeking and refugee women resident in Europe' poster
Diana Flores (Maternity Stream volunteer and service user) received a standing ovation at a key note presentation with network member…
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.