Dr Marie Naish

Marie Naish is a Senior Teaching Fellow, Lead Midwife for Education, Midwifery Programme Lead and Midwifery Group Manager within the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton. Marie is also undertaking her doctorate, exploring the experiences of women, birth partners and midwives of a dedicated, 24 hour support and advice telephone line for use in labour.

Educating and nurturing the next generation of midwives to empower women and birthing people, while providing high quality, person-centred care, is a fulfilling and rewarding role

My professional background is as a midwife, working initially with vulnerable families and later in an integrated midwifery team.

My academic activity is linked to:

• All aspects of midwifery practice particularly physiological birth and the latent phase of labour
• Empowering women and birthing people to make choices
• Decision making, particularly in relation to partnership working and shared decision making
• Research exploring telephone interaction between women and midwives, particularly in relation to how conversations are interpreted, understood and experienced by each party
• Collaboration between maternity and emergency services and the impact on experience and safety
• Qualitative research methods – particularly interpretative phenomenological analysis

Marie is currently undertaking her doctorate exploring the experiences of women, birth partners and midwives of a dedicated, 24 hour support and advice telephone line for use in labour. Marie is particularly interested in the interaction between midwives and women, and the differences, or similarities, between them in how telephone conversations are experienced, interpreted and understood.