Name: Dr Carol Kingdon - A social history of academic midwifery in the UK
Start: 2026-05-07T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-07T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Liverpool Medical Institution & Conference Centre

Dr Carol Kingdon - A social history of academic midwifery in the UK

Part of our Presidential Lecture Programme, 186th Session
LMI President 2025-6: Professor Andrew Weeks
About this Event

Part of the 'Bringing Life' lecture programme organised by this year's President of Liverpool Medical Institution, Professor Andrew Weeks.
Dr Carol Kingdon

Title: A social history of academic midwifery in the UK

Carol is a medical sociologist in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Liverpool and the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire. She holds honorary contracts with Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust and the UK Health Security Agency. She leads applied qualitative and mixed-methods research in maternity care. Her main areas of research encompass choice and birth mode, stillbirth and bereavement care, and qualitative sub-studies of intrapartum clinical trials. Read more:

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