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Professor Marlene Sinclair

PhD MEd Post Graduate Diploma in Education BSc RNT RM RN
Specialist certificate in Neuromedicine/Neurosurgery
Current employment: Chair in Midwifery Research at the University of Ulster (2007)

Marlene has over twenty years of experience in higher education and is Ireland’s first professor of midwifery research. She received a personal chair from the University of Ulster in 2007.

Her ambition is to develop clinical midwifery researchers’ at doctoral and post doctoral level; to build research leadership and capacity of midwives, locally, nationally and internationally. To date, she has successfully supervised 12 PhD students and proudly holds an honorary contract with the Ulster Maternity Unit. Her specialist area of research is birth technology and her PhD completed in 1999 was titled: “Midwives Readiness to Use High Technology in the Labour Ward: Implications for Education and Training. In 2007, she established the world’s first research society for midwives: The Doctoral Midwifery Research Society http://www.doctoralmidwiferysociety.org/ (DMRS funded by the NI R&D Office)

Marlene is currently the founder and editor of RCM Evidence Based Midwifery. She was elected as a member of RCM Council in 2005, re-elected in 2009 and is an active member of the RCM Education and Research Committee and the RCM Steering Group for Normal Birth. She has recently been appointed to the RCOG Wellbeing Research Committee and the new Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) panel. Marlene has served on many major university committees including: Senate, Research and Innovation, Ethics, and the Institute of Nursing Research.

Dr. J Stockdale

Janine qualified as a midwife in 1985, and worked mainly in the NHS within Northern Ireland, with three years working in the USA. In 2002 she received a training fellowship from the Research and Development Office of Northern Ireland; the purpose of the award was to study the application of motivation on sustained breastfeeding behaviour.
Preliminary work included the development of the Breastfeeding Motivational Instruction Measurement Tool designed to motivationally analyse the effects of current midwife instruction. Based on the findings of a motivational analysis, a innovative motivationally-enhanced version of routine breastfeeding instruction was developed (“Designer Breastfeeding”). Feasibility testing within a urban hospital and communities setting provided initial evidence of the motivational benefits of the intervention.

In 2007 she was awarded a PhD. by the University of Ulster for her research contribution to midwifery. Post-doctoral in 2009, Janine joined the academic team at Trinity College Dublin University. There she has been able to apply her instructional design expertise in relation to midwifery education, while at the same time continuing further development and re-engineering of the original ‘Designer Breastfeeding’ prototype.

Olga Gouni

Prebirth Psychotherapist, prebirth psychology trainer, director of the Prebirth Psychology Center cosmoanelixis, president of the Hellenic Union for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine, board Member of the International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM)
El Alamein 20, 142 31 Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece, www.cosmoanelixis.gr, e-mail: info@cosmoanelixis.gr
Tel./ fax 0030 210 2720015, mob. + 6983 193 300

Studies

• Law School of Athens
• Sociology lessons “Open University”
• Prebirth Psychology training

Professional Experience
• 1974-1993: Teaching career / owner of two private schools in Athens
• 1997- today: Official Representative of Whole-self Discovery & Development Institute, Netherlands
• 2000-today : Owner and director of “Prebirth Psychology Center COSMOANELIXIS”, in Athens
• 2001-today: Municipality of PHILI as psychotherapist working with kids, adults
• 2004-today: President of the Hellenic Union for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine
• 2004: Trainer with the Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Experimental Pedagogy. Presented a 2-year vocational training course in Prebirth Psychology
• 2004- today: Board Member of the International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine
• 2004-today: Chairperson of the Special Education Committee in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM)
• 2004- today: Prebirth Psychology Trainer in Italy, Serbia, Greece and Cyprus.
• 2004-today: Presenter in a number of congresses all over Europe
• 2008: Publication of the book “MERES PSIHIS” (SOUL DAYS)
• 2009: Publication of the book Kalosorises (WELCOME)
• 2010 –today: Representative of Greece, in the international research team COST Action, on optimum materniny care.
• 2011: establishment of the non government non profit organization “Tierra y Cielo, Centro de desarrollo Integral, A.C.), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Titles of congress presentations published in the journals as well

 • Prebirth Psychology in Action: Presentation at the 16th International Congress ISPPM, 2005, “The Anthropology & Psychology of Pregnancy & Birth” Heidelberg , Germany
• How we and the world turn a blind eye! It is time to welcome our children! (Moscow congress, 2007)
• From the Heart to the Ear: Presentation at the Second European Congress of Early Prevention in Children with Verbal Communication Disorders, 26-28 September, 2008 Sofia, Bulgaria Organized by: The NBU (New Bulgarian University) Sofia, Bulgaria, The IEPSP (Institute for Experimental Phonetics and Speech Pathology, Belgrade, Serbia) The P.A.L.O. (The Hellenic Organization of Hearing, Speech Therapy & Communication Disorders, Patra, Greece
• It is Never too Late! Now is the Moment! Presentation at the XVIIIth International ISPPM Congress: Prevention- Early Dialogue, 2008, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Prenatal and Perinatal Experience and Autonomy: Presentation at the Greek-Cypriot Congress for Children with Disabilities, 2007, THEOTOKOS, Athens, Greece
• Prenatal Cont®acts for a Lifetime: Presentation at the Parma congress, 2008…
 

Dr.P Gillen

Patricia registered as a midwife in 1987 and has worked as a midwife and a labour ward sister in large urban hospitals. In 1997, she was appointed as the manager of a rural maternity unit and while there undertook some research into midwifery led care. She also worked as a Supervisor of Midwives.

In January 2002, she took up a post as a Lecturer within the University of Ulster and successfully completed her PhD in July 2007. Her research explored the nature and manifestations of bullying in Midwifery, for which she was awarded the RCM Ruth Davies Research Bursary. She is currently working as the Academic Coordinator for Post Registration Education within the School of Nursing, University of Ulster.