Hannah is a Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) working alongside other university PMA's to implement the AEQUIP model within the midwifery curriculum. Using Restorative Supervision, her commitment to practise compassionate leadership aims to inspire student development, support wellbeing, and student motivation to promote the safe and compassionate care of women and families. Hannah is a mental health champion, contributing to our drive of sustaining mental health strategy.
Hannah is a UCLan DigiLearn Champion and Microsoft MIE Expert, understanding the requirement for digital literacy in modern education and midwifery. She has a significant interest in decolonisation of the midwifery curriculum. She has created mini modules to promote cultural sensitivity and multicultural community. Caring in health, particularly midwifery, requires deep examination of personal bias to aid the dismantling of systemic racism within clinical practice, an area at the forefront of the national midwifery agenda. This is also evident within higher education, so Hannah is keen to develop immersive learning experiences, and ensuring cultural representation within her teaching.
Hannah has previously worked as a consultant for All4Maternity and held the role of Editor-In-Chief of the Student Midwife Journal. Outside of formal academia, she is the founder of BloodtoBaby.com, a website focussed on physiological transition of the neonate with optimal cord clamping. Hannah continues to innovate this resource, which is now recommended the British Association of Perinatal Medicines (BAPM) quality improvement toolkit for the care of Preterm Babies. In 2017 Hannah won the RCM 'Evidence into Practice' Award for this work.
Prior to the pandemic, Hannah regularly presented at Midwifery Conferences. Most recently she has synthesised the BloodtoBaby 'Neonatal resuscitation with an intact cord' module into a presentation hosted by the Australian Breastfeeding Association in their online 'Perspectives on birth and perinatal care' conference in February 2021.
Hannah has been involved in work with Oxford Brookes University to build a website to host a new module - a tool for measuring blood loss in a pool, following water birth. As a student, undertaking research here, Hannah has supported Soo Downe and Kenny Findlayson to identify initial themes of qualitative research for the World Health Organisation Antenatal Care Guidelines.
