Dr Yvonne Greig

Midwifery Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University

Yvonne has been a midwife for 30 years, practicing clinically in various contexts, as a senior research midwife and in the higher education sector as a lecturer. During her Doctoral journey she explored midwifery practice and how midwives provide care to women with raised BMI. Yvonne has specific interests pertaining to maternal health, particularly nutrition during pregnancy. She aims to continue developing this area of research and to develop a midwifery consultation model. Yvonne is a volunteer with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and as part of the Millennium Develop Goals, has facilitated educational programmes for our overseas colleagues in Kenya that has focused upon how to manage obstetric emergencies in a bid to get the maternal mortality rates down globally. She is now midwifery lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University and loved working with the future of the profession. Twitter: @GreigYvonne