A/Prof Elizabeth (Liz) Newnham is a midwifery academic with a research focus on seeking social justice solutions for humanising birth. Her 20+ year career includes clinical midwifery practice, teaching and research. She is a thought leader in the cultural and political analysis of childbirth, through four streams: birth ethics, birth technology, birth environment and birth practice. Related work includes a reconceptualising of autonomy within midwifery practice and developing care ethics concepts for relational midwifery practice. She has published widely in these areas and been an invited speaker at conferences and events around the world. Her doctoral research was published as the book Towards the humanisation of birth: A study of epidural analgesia and hospital birth culture by Palgrave MacMillan.

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and pregnancy and childbirth: An Interpretive phenomenological approach (Newcastle University - primary). 

Women's knowledge and awareness of the risk of venous thromboembolism during pregnancy and the postpartum period in Al-Jouf City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Newcastle University - co-supervisor). 

Understanding the pedagogy of Continuity of Care Experiences within pre-registration midwifery education: A critical feminist approach (Newcastle University - co-supervisor). 

Women’s experiences of maternity care from an ethical perspective: a participatory social justice project: exploring the care ethics paradigm for ethical midwifery care (ECU - co-supervisor). 

Determining respectful maternity care in Nepal: a mixed-methods study (Griffith University - co-supervisor). 

Women’s lived experiences of access to alternative birth options in contemporary Ireland (Trinity College Dublin - adjunct supervisor). 

Qualitative and critical methodologies; midwifery philosophy and practice; ethics

• Childbirth culture and politics 
• Midwifery philosophy and practice
• Care ethics
• Social justice