Dr Tina South

I am a Registered Midwife with an expertise in antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. I have a passion for compassionate care in healthcare and for the carers and students who care for them. I have a long-standing interest in supporting perinatal mental health and wellbeing. I have been able to work outside the box in my career as a midwife to provide mental wellbeing health support, for which I received an Innovator of the Year award. I am the recipient of three International Awards for my hermeneutic phenomenological research study of the lived experiences of pregnant midwives, and have intrnational recognition as a Caring Science scholar. I have worked as a Lead Midwife for Education (LME) at my previous institution and also here at LJMU I am passionate about pastoral support for PhD students, and whilst a PhD student myself, I set up a support network in Wales for Midwifery PhD students.

Although I have an interest in qualitative Research Methods, I have undertaken training in Systematic Reviews from the Joanna Biggs Institute, and am currenlty supporting a PhD student who is undertaking Mixed Methods research. I have received a ‘Midwifery Education Team Trailblazer Award for my role as part of a PhD supervisory team here at LJMU and, also have received recognition from the Royal College of Midwives for my work on supporting the wellbeing of Midwives.

Languages

English
Polish
French
German
Italian
Latin