Ms Wendy Stacey-Alidina BA, MA

Postgraduate research student

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Ms Wendy Stacey-Alidina is Postgraduate research student within Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology at the University of Southampton.

Over recent decades, the patterns of when a baby is most likely to be born have reversed. Before the 1970s children were more likely to be born on a weekend day and in the early hours of the morning. Today, babies are more likely to be born on a weekday and during the daytime.

In the past three decades there has been an increase in births that have required more medical involvement. New technologies and medicine have enabled a more controlled delivery, which has made childbirth safer, quicker and with less pain.

Wendy Stacey-Alidina wants to understand why these patterns of time of birth have reversed and what is driving the change.