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Mrs Sarah Kelly

Job: Senior Midwifery Lecturer

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Nursing and Midwifery

Address: ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 207 8108

E: sarah.kelly@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

I was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and my childhood was spent in Leicestershire. An early direct entry midwife, I qualified in 1999 and worked for the next 5 years at Sharoe Green Hospital in Preston, within a team specialising in high-risk pregnancies and those expected to have poor outcomes due to fetal anomalies. Then I worked for a further 2 years at Royal Preston Hospital when Sharoe Green was closed and then demolished. I was the midwife present at the last birth there.

In 2006, I moved to the Isle of Man. I was hospital-based again, but spent quite a few years in antenatal clinic, becoming involved in antenatal screening, patient information and education, and a debriefing service, mostly with women who had unresolved issues from a previous pregnancy, and were pregnant again. The regular hours in clinic enabled me to study for my MSc, and I graduated from Manchester Metropolitan in 2017. I had an article published in The Practising Midwife in 2014 that stemmed from my first MSc assignment. My undergraduate degree had been hard work, but during my MSc, I found a new love for studying and education.

In 2022, after completing my PgCert at Hull York Medical School the previous year, and to be closer to my family, I came back to my home county to work at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ. It has been a daunting transition from practice to education, and it continues to challenge me to get out and stay out of my comfort zone.

Research interests/expertise

Patient information. Antenatal Screening

Areas of teaching

Midwifery

Qualifications

RM, BA(Hons), MSc, PgCHPE

¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ taught

BSc Midwifery

Membership of professional associations and societies

Association of Radical Midwives, Royal College of Midwives

Professional licences and certificates

Registered Midwife