Please find below details of a research midwife post, to start on
1st October 2003 for 1 year. To submit an application, please
look on the University of Sheffield web page within the next
week or two (http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs) where the post
details will shortly appear.
University of Sheffield
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Research Midwife post to examine why midwives
stay/return
Salary: £ 27,339 – 33,679, depending on experience
Closing date: 29 August 2003
Start date: 1 October 2003
Length of contract: 1 year
Candidates should be familiar with a range of research methods:
questionnaire design and the organisation of a national survey
and ethnographic interviews. They must be confident in
interviewing midwives at all organisational levels and have a
basic knowledge of statistics. A masters degree in midwifery or
a social science is desirable.
The successful candidate will be responsible for data analysis.
Aims of the study
To obtain a clear picture, with appropriate statistics, of the
reasons midwives give for continuing to practise midwifery.
To identify and gather the views of midwife returners on their
reasons for returning and their subsequent midwifery experience.
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Mavis Kirkham, Professor of Midwifery
Women's Informed Childbearing and Health Research Group
School of Nursing and Midwifery
University of Sheffield
Bartolome House, Winter Street, Sheffield, UK S3 7ND
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 9707
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 9712
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/wich
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