Research Students
The Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health is committed to supporting the work of postgraduate research students in the areas of midwifery and child and family health. Staff and Portfolio holders are involved in being advisors or supervisors to PhD, Professional Doctorate and Masters (Hons) students and Bachelor (Hons) students.
Supervision is undertaken mainly as a group through regular meetings of supervisors and students. In these meetings the students discuss their work and receive advice, guidance and support. The meetings are held fortnightly (Fridays from 10-12) at the UTS City Campus. We welcome the attendance of prospective students who want to come and hear about the process on undertaking postgraduate research degrees and to meet potential supervisors. Contact the office on 02 9514 4834 for details of the dates of meetings.
The Faculty website provides more information about research students at UTS.
What is expected of research degree students? (pdf, 26kb)
Current postgraduate students
Doctoral students
Suellen Allen (FT)
PhD: Understanding the safety culture in one maternity service in NSW
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Professor Mary Chiarella
Carolyn Briggs (PT)
Doctor of Nursing: To investigate contemporary nursing practice and service delivery to inform best practice in maternal child and family health models of care.
Supervisors: Adjunct Professor Virginia Schmied and Professor Lesley Barclay
Sally Anne Brown (PT)
Doctor of Midwifery: Capturing a process of activism: A community of remote rural women working together to influence local birthing services through participatory action research.
Supervisors: Professor Sally Tracy and Professor Mary Chiarella
Nancy Olan Buasi (PT)
Doctor of Midwifery [title to be confirmed].
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Professor Nicky Leap
Christine Catling-Paul (PT)
PhD: Experiences of women who choose homebirth in a publicly-funded model
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Dr Hannah Dahlen
Helen Cooke (PT)
PhD: [title still being finalised]
Supervisors: Professor Sally Tracy
Carole Gilmour (PT)
Doctor of Midwifery: Continuity, control and choice for midwives within the changing face of midwifery
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Assoc Prof Lin Lock
Joanne Gray (PT)
PhD: An exploration of the 'follow-through' experience of pre-registration midwifery students
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Professor Nicky Leap
Donna Hartz (FT)
PhD: A randomised controlled trial of caseload midwifery
Supervisors: Professor Sally Tracy and Professor Maralyn Foureur
Sue Hendy (PT)
PhD: [title still being finalised]
Supervisors: Professor Sally Tracy and Professor Cathrine Fowler
Jan Wheeler (PT)
Doctor of Midwifery: Midwifery clinical practice interventions and perineal trauma in Asian women experiencing spontaneous vaginal birth.
Supervisors: Professor Pat Brodie and Professor Caroline Homer
Manal Kassab (FT)
PhD: Is oral glucose an effective form of pain relief for infants undergoing two month immunization injections: A randomised controlled trial.
Supervisors: Professor Maralyn Foureur and Professor Cathrine Fowler
Masters (Hons) students
Fiona Arundell (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons): [title still being finalised]
Supervisors: Professor Maralyn Foureur and Professor Cathrine Fowler
Lois Berry (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons) [title still being finalised]
Supervisors: Assoc Prof Linette Lock and Professor Caroline Homer / Professor Nicky Leap
Vanessa Clements (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons): [title still being finalised]
Supervisors: Professor Nicky Leap and Associate Professor Deb Davis
Felicity Copeland (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons): [title still being finalised]
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Dr Hannah Dahlen
Soheila Jadidi (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons): Women's perception of IOL
Supervisors: Professor Maralyn Foureur and Professor Caroline Homer
Jane Kookarkin (PT)
Master of Health Services (Hons): What are the stories being told through Child and Family Health Nursing Documentation?
Supervisors: Professor Cathrine Fowler and Professor Maralyn Foureur
Rachel Smith (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons) Experiences of midwives undertaking credentialing in NSW
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Professor Pat Brodie
Katie Sullivan (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons) Why do midwives stay?
Supervisors: Assoc Prof Linette Lock and Professor Caroline Homer
Alison Teate (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons) The introduction of CenteringPregnancy to Australia
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Professor Nicky Leap
Lyn Passant (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons)
Supervisors: Professor Pat Brodie and Assoc Professor Virginia Schmied
Jacqueline Walker (PT)
Master of Nursing (Hons): How do mothers experience problem solving with their infants' cues?: A study of mothers in the community with their zero to six month olds
Supervisors: Professor Cathrine Fowler and Professor Maralyn Foureur
Catherine Whelan (PT)
Master of Midwifery (Hons) The impact of interprofessional education on medical student anxiety in labour ward
Supervisors: Professor Maralyn Foureur and Professor Caroline Homer
Bachelor (Hons) students
Belle Watson (PT)
Bachelor of Midwifery (Hons)
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Professor Maralyn Foureur
Masters and Doctoral Students from the Centre who completed and graduated
2008
Hannah Dahlen
Doctor of Philosophy: The Perineal Warm Pack Trial
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Dr Margaret Cooke
Karen Myors
Masters by Research
Supervisors: Adj Professor Virginia Schmied and Professor Edward White
Athena Sheehan
Doctor of Philosophy: A grounded theory analysis of women's infant feeding decision
Supervisors: Adjunct Professor Virginia Schmied and Professor Lesley Barclay
2006
Reham Khresheh
Doctor of Philosophy: Investigating the feasibility of introducing a consolidated birth record: the first step in an information system that identifies outcomes and enables improvement.
Supervisors: Dr Lin Lock, Professor Caroline Homer and Professor Lesley Barclay
Insaf Shaban
Doctor of Midwifery: Midwifery as a public health strategy: The exploration of the potential role and education of midwives in Jordan
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Dr Lin Lock
Noreen Murray
Masters by Research: Routine urinalysis in pregnancy - the HULA Study.
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Homer and Dr Margaret Cooke
Denise Kinross
Master of Nursing by Research: A decade of change: the development of family centred care in a neonatal unit
Supervisors: Dr Virginia Schmied and Dr Margaret Cooke
2005
Margaret Duff
Doctor of Philosophy: A Chronology of Birth
Supervisors: Professor Lesley Barclay and Adjunct Professor Virginia Schmied
Sue Kildea
Doctor of Philosophy: Reducing 'Isolation'. A participatory action research approach to strengthen remote area maternity services.
Supervisors: Professor Lesley Barclay and Dr Pat Brodie
Nicky Leap
Doctor of Midwifery: Rhetoric and Reality: Narrowing the Gap in Australian Midwifery
Supervisors: Professor Lesley Barclay and Professor Jill White
Jane Svensson
Doctor of Philosophy: Antenatal Education: Meeting Consumer Needs A Study in Health Services Development
Supervisors: Professor Lesley Barclay, Dr Margaret Cooke