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Collaborations:
- Leigh Ham, Swansea University
- Dr Aimee Grant, LIFT, Swansea University
- Consent and the law in organ donation in the UK 2012 Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
- Representing the innovative and collaborative nature of the University breastfeeding group 2020 Accepted at the 32nd International Confederation of Midwives Triennial Congress. Postponed due to COVID)
- Setting up a collaborative student led, breastfeeding group 2019 Once for Wales Midwifery Education Conference, Swansea University
- Survey of mothers feelings of attending the University breastfeeding group 2018 University Health Board &
- Swansea University Nursing &
- Midwifery Celebration Event, called ‘Lighting the Future’ Margam Park
- Collaborative and innovative nature of the university breastfeeding group 2018 Inaugural Health and Wellbeing Conference: From Ideas to Impact: Co-producing health and wellbeing with our community
Research staff:
- Healer, E. (2014). The use of objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in the assessment of breastfeeding knowledge. MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, 24(4), 419-423. SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55850
- Ellis, D., Williams, K., Brown, A., Healer, E., &
- Grant, A. (2023). A realist review of health passports for Autistic adults. PLOS ONE, 18(9), e0279214 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279214, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64505 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279214 All Research
- Ellis, R., Williams, K., Brown, A., Healer, E. and Grant, A., 2022. A hostile context, very limited intervention theory and almost no change in outcomes: findings from a systematic realist review of health passports for Autistic adults. medRxiv, pp.2022-12.
- Healer, Eleanor. "The'art'of successful breastfeeding education." The Practising Midwife 18, no. 8 (2015): 19-21.
- Qualifications:BSc (Hons), LLM, RM, IBCLC, FHEA, PGCertHE
- Position:Senior Midwifery Lecturer
- Department:HAS - Nursing and Midwifery School of Health and Social Wellbeing
- Telephone:+441179656261
- Email:Eleanor.Healer@uwe.ac.uk
About me
I trained as a midwife in East London, working within a diverse and dynamic community that shaped my commitment to inclusive, rights-based and culturally safe care. I am also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).
I hold a BSc (Hons) in Midwifery, an LLM in Healthcare Law, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
With over 21 years’ experience spanning clinical practice, education and medico-legal work, I have held senior academic roles including Head of Midwifery and programme leadership for BSc, MSc and CPD provision. My work includes curriculum and assessment design, UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation, and contributing to national neonatal NIPE guidance.
My professional focus is on human-rights-based and trauma-informed maternity care. I am an associate trainer with Birthrights and a consultant to Bond Solon, where I develop and deliver rights-focused and medico-legal training for maternity professionals.
Alongside my role at UWE, I work independently providing maternity record reviews, rights-based care support and specialist lactation expertise as an IBCLC.
I am passionate about supporting midwifery students to develop confidence, competence and a strong grounding in rights-based care, ensuring they are well prepared for the realities of contemporary midwifery practice and able to support women and birthing people with safe, individualised care.
Area of expertise
• Health law, human rights and medico-legal aspects of maternity care
• NIPE (Newborn and Infant Physical Examination)
• Infant feeding and lactation (IBCLC)
• Midwifery education, curriculum design and programme development (MSc, CPD)
• Strong record of supporting undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery training
• Interprofessional working across maternity, neonatal and legal teams
• Maintaining current clinical practice in a South Wales hospital
• Trauma-informed and rights-based maternity care
• Supporting the maternity workforce under current service pressures
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