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Hi Ellie,

 

I did a postnatal ward ethnography (two units in the UK)  for my PhD with Mavis Kirkham as supervisor.  Key publications:

 

·         Dykes F (2006) Breastfeeding in Hospital: Midwives, Mothers and the Production Line. London: Routledge.

 

·         Dykes F (2005) A critical ethnographic study of encounters between midwives and breastfeeding women on postnatal wards in England Midwifery 21, 241-252.

 

·         Dykes F (2005) ‘Supply’ and ‘Demand’: Breastfeeding as Labour.  Social Science & Medicine  60,  2283-2293

 

More recently, Renee Flacking did her post doc with me which was a cross-cultural ethnographic study in NICUs in Sweden and England:

Flacking R, Dykes F (2013) ‘Being in a womb’ or ‘playing musical chairs’: the impact of place and space on infant feeding in NICUs.  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 13:179 http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2393-13-179.pdf (IF 2.83)

 

Also, I supervised Magda Sachs on her PhD: 

Magda Sachs M (2005) ‘Following the Line’: An ethnographic study of the influence of routine baby weighing on breastfeeding women in England.  UCLAN.

 

Another PhD student is Anna Byrom but I think she has introduced herself already.

 

BW, Fiona

 

Dr Fiona Dykes PhD, MA, RM, ADM, FHEA

Professor of Maternal and Infant Health,

Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN),

School of Health,

University of Central Lancashire, Preston,

Lancashire, PR1 2HE

 

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Tel: +44(0)1772 893828

 

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/environment/groups/maternal_and_infant_nutrition_and_nurture_unit.php

 

 

From: A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Billie hunter
Sent: 03 February 2014 09:27
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Dear Ellie

 

Welcome to the list!

 

I used an ethnographic approach in my PhD, which looked at the emotion work of midwives in hospital and community settings, so my thesis might be interesting for you to read. It was entitled Emotion Work in Midwifery, University of Wales Swansea2002, and should be available via Swansea University Library.

 

Other midwifery /maternity ethnographies that spring to mind are those of Denis Walsh, Fiona Dykes, Juliet Rayment - and there is the classic ethnography by Mavis Kirkham of interactions between midwives and women on labour ward in the late 1970s/early 1980s. And there are certainly others .....

 

Good luck with your study - it sounds very interesting

 

Best wishes

Billie

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On 2 Feb 2014, at 18:41, Diane Speier <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Ellie,

 

My doctorate was a retrospective ethnography of my work as a childbirth educator. It's called The Childlbirth Educator as Ethnographer: A Feminist Retrospective Ethnography of a Professional Practice. It's in the University of Manchester library, and it was in the Centre for Women's Studies, Sociology.

 

I hope that helps.

 

All the best,

   Diane Speier, PhD

 

 


Dr Diane S Speier
Birth and Postnatal Professional and Holistic Psychotherapist

BIRTH, GROWTH AND HEALING LTD

+44 (0)1565 734929

+44 (0)7717 296006

 

 

 

On 2 February 2014 17:48, Jenkins E.C. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello
I have not used this forum before.  I am Ellie Jenkins a midwife in Portsmouth currently studying towards a Doctorate in Clinical Practice at the University of Southampton.

My research is the information behaviour of midwives in the high risk labour ward.  I have used the principles of ethnography for my data collection and methodology.

Does anyone have or know of a PhD or doctoral thesis which uses ethnography that I could refer to?  Or even know of one in a university library that I could approach.

Lucia - I saw your email about your ethnographic research - could you contact me if you have some time?

Many thanks

Ellie Jenkins
Midwife
Doctoral candidate
University of Southamton

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