Liz Newnham

Associate Professor (Teaching and Research)

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

liz.newnham@flinders.edu.au

Sturt West

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Elizabeth (Liz) Newnham is Associate Professor of Midwifery at Flinders University and Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives. For 25 years, her clinical practice, teaching and research has focused on seeking social justice solutions for humanising birth, currently through the development of four research streams: ethics, technology, environment and practice. She has published widely in these areas and been an invited speaker at conferences and events in Europe, the US, the UK and Australia. Her doctoral thesis was published as the book Towards the humanisation of birth: A study of epidural analgesia and hospital birth culture by Palgrave MacMillan.

Links to interviews and media

Interview with Irish times https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/the-paradox-of-safer-childbirth-1.3535891
Interview with Care Ethics Research Consortium https://care-ethics.com/2019/06/27/liz-newnham/

Podcast Interviews

The Great Birth Rebellion https://www.melaniethemidwife.com/podcasts/the-great-birth-rebellion/episodes/2148112368
Through the Pinard https://thruthepinardpodcast.buzzsprout.com/
The Gender Card https://soundcloud.com/user-236146801/gender-card-international-midwifery-day
Making a Midwife https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/making-a-midwife/id1525329826
Contractions https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/contraction-i-power-knowledge/id1540560832?i=1000499061932
Career sessions http://careersessions.com/doctorates/the-dr-elizabeth-newnham-session/

Qualifications

PhD, University of South Australia

BA (Politics) (Hons)

B.Mid

B.Nsg

Honours, awards and grants

2023 Australian College of Midwives Fellow

2022 Early Career Researcher Award, Newcastle University

Key responsibilities

Midwifery lead

Professional engagement

Australian College of Midwives, member

Humanising Birth Research Network, convenor

Australian Midwifery Maternity Alliance, member

South Australian Abortion Action Coalition, member

Care Ethics Research Consortium, member

Global Birth Environment Design network, member

Expert for media contact

Midwifery

Available for contact via

liz.newnham@flinders.edu.au

Or contact the media team

newsdesk@flinders.edu.au

0466 527 875

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Media expert

Media expertise

Midwifery

Interests

Midwifery

Further information

PhD Supervision

I am an experienced HDR supervisor and happy to chat about possible projects within my areas of expertise.

current

Respectful maternity care in India. University of Newcastle, co-supervisor

The lived experiences of fathers’ traumatic labour and birth. University of Newcastle, co-supervisor.

Reducing interventions during birth – not just a numbers game. How can childbirth education improve birth outcomes and experiences? University of Notre Dame, co-supervisor.

Completed

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and pregnancy and childbirth: An Interpretive phenomenological approach. University of Newcastle, primary supervisor. Submitted 2024.

Women's knowledge and awareness of the risk of venous thromboembolism during pregnancy and the postpartum period in Al-Jouf City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. University of Newcastle, co-supervisor. Awarded 2024.

Understanding the pedagogy of Continuity of Care Experiences within pre-registration midwifery education: A critical feminist approach. University of Newcastle, co-supervisor. Awarded 2023.

Women’s experiences of maternity care from an ethical perspective: a participatory social justice project: exploring the care ethics paradigm for ethical midwifery care. Edith Cowan University, adjunct supervisor. Awarded 2023.

Determining respectful maternity care in Nepal: a mixed-methods study. Griffith University, co-supervisor. Awarded 2022.

Women’s lived experiences of access to alternative birth options in contemporary Ireland. Trinity College Dublin, adjunct supervisor. Awarded 2022.