Perspectives on Midwifery and Parenthood (PDF)

interest include midwifery education and research, transition to and preparation for parenthood, perinatal mental health, family planning, maternal and infant health.



Julie Jomeen is Professor of Midwifery, and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia. She has recently relocated from the University of Hull, UK where she was dean of the Faculty of Health and led a Research Group for Maternal, Reproductive Health within the Faculty. She maintains honorary Professorial status at Hull. A key focus of her work is exploring issues of perinatal mental health and psychological health in childbearing women utilising mixed methods approaches; a programme of research which has led to strong collaborations in relation to national and international research, service development work and practitioner training initiatives. Other research interests include women's choice and decision-making and practitioner decision making. She has also been involved in national and international curriculum development in midwifery. Julie is an Adjunct Professor at Memorial University Newfoundland and a Visiting Professor at Suzhou University, China. She is a previous associate editor for BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth and Women and Birth and a recent outgoing Chair of the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology - an international society.

Julie has been on several research grant awarding panels for the NIHR, UK and most recently the Deputy Chair of the HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme for non-medics. She reviews for grant awarding bodies both nationally and internationally. She is currently a member of two EU COST pan-European research networks; RiseUpPPD focused on filling gaps in PPD research, practice and social awareness by developing updated reviews fostering research efforts on the standardization of diagnostic criteria, the development of adequate screening tools and cost-effectiveness evaluation of prevention and treatment programs and Devotion focussed on the prevalence of birth trauma and work toward universal measures of measuring, assessing and preventing birth trauma.