Ms Maria Velo Higueras
| Biography | Maria qualified as a Midwife in 2013 and also holds a degree in Nursing (2010). She also carried out further postgraduate studies in Gender Based Violence (2012) and Sexology and Gender (2013) that influenced the feminist values and human right approach to her Midwifery practice. Between 2014 and 2018 she developed her midwifery career in different clinical settings across West London, working in both hospital and community, supporting homebirths and providing team-based continuity of care. Since 2018 she has contributed to the improvement of maternity services by educating future midwives in the values of feminist, woman/person-centred care and autonomous midwifery. She is currently researching UK midwives' attitudes to freebirth. Other areas of interest are internationalization of midwifery education and digital literacy. Finally, Maria would like to include here her role as mother of two young children. By including in her professional profile, she aims to vindicate and visibilise this important social task that hugely influences women's academic work, lives and careers, and that is often unpaid and socially underappreciated. |
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| Research Interests | Freebirth Human rights in maternity care Feminism and gender Digital literacy Internationalisation |
| Teaching and Learning | Undergraduate Midwifery program Postgraduate Midwifery program |
| PhD Supervision Availability | No |