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Liz Gale
Senior Lecturer, Midwifery
Liz Gale is a Senior Lecturer for Midwifery in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Greenwich.
Liz is a midwife who has worked in both hospital and community settings, for many years as caseload midwife. She was involved in the setting up of a local Sure Start and worked as a midwife within that multidisciplinary team.
Since joining the university, Liz has been module lead and taught on a range of modules for midwifery and nursing students, as well as within Early years.
Her teaching focuses on psychosocial aspects of care and the recognition of wider influences on health and wellbeing. Her particular interests are in social midwifery, public health, promoting equitable outcomes for more disadvantaged families, infant feeding and transition to early parenthood.
Her PhD was a Hermeneutic phenomenological study of the transition to parenthood for couples with an IVF pregnancy.
Posts held previously:
- 2002-04, Sure Start Midwife, North Bexley Sure Start
- 1992-2002, Senior Midwife, Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup
- 1989-92, Staff Midwife, Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup
- 1987 – 1989 Student and Staff Midwife, West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth
- 1983 – 1986 Student and Staff Nurse, Guys’ Hospital, London