FYI Jane Sandall Professor of Women's Health Division of Women’s Health, King’s College London Women’s Health Academic Centre King's Health Partners 10th Floor, North Wing, St. Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7EH http://www.kcl.ac.uk/medicine/research/divisions/wh/index.aspx Tel: 020 7188 8149 Fax: 020 7620 1227 e-mail:[log in to unmask] Skype: jsandall http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/stthomas/StThomas.aspx PA [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tel: 020 7188 3639 ________________________________ From: The normal birth research list [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Soo Downe [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 27 May 2013 21:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: FINAL Reminder: 8th normal birth research conference, June 5-7th Grange over Sands UK: programme now on line Programme is now here: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/conference_events/assets/Copy_of_Normal_Birth_Conf_Draft_Programme_14_May.pdf Normal Labour and Birth: 8th Research Conference: ‘Getting it right first time: normal birth and the individual, family, and society’. The Grange Hotel Conference Centre, Grange Over Sands, English Lake District Wednesday 5th to Friday 7th June 2013 Background This is the eighth international conference in a series that is designed to disseminate research, theory, art, drama, policy and practice relating to physiological childbirth. The conference will address social, cultural, physiological, psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects of labour and birth. It will examine new developments in the current evidence base on the nature of and cultures around birth, and on associated processes and outcomes of labour and birth. Papers will cover primary and secondary research, methodological debates, and new philosophies and constructs in this area. Conference Aims The conference will provide the opportunity to develop and disseminate evidence in the area of normal labour and birth, to enhance clinical practice, education, management, supervision, service delivery, and policy, and to further research collaboration. Objectives 1. To disseminate ongoing and complete research 2. To provide the opportunity for collaboration and debate 3. To discuss an agenda for the future in the area of normal labour and birth Participants This conference will be of interest to: * academics and researchers working in the area of maternity services, birth and women’s health * those providing maternity care (professional, lay, state-funded, independent, midwifery, medical, nursing, and other groups) * policy makers with an interest in maternity services * clinical leaders, managers, and heads of service * service users * lecturers at all levels in maternity care * managers of maternity care education * 1 Day: £125 + VAT * 2 Days: £250 + VAT * 3 Days: £375 + VAT * Conference Dinner £35 + VAT * Social Trip to Bowness on Windermere £35 + VAT Website For further information, and to book a place at the conference, please click on the following link http://www.uclan.ac.uk/conference_events/normal_labour_birth.php Or contact Liz Roberts [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or phone on +44 (0)1772 893809 or write to: Liz Roberts, University of Central Lancashire, Conference & Events, Westleigh, Preston, PR1 2HE