Watch live from 09:45 on Tuesday 29th November 2022

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At various points during the festival you have a choice of different parallel seminar streams to participate in.

Please use the links below to access these seminars at the appropriate time, check the agenda for full details of all parallel seminars. If you are joining Stream B or Stream C on Zoom please remember to close the live stream page or mute the video player, otherwise you will get audio from both streams simultaneously.

STREAM A: Available to view via the main live stream above.

STREAM B: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

STREAM C: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

Speaker presentation slides and other relevant festival documentation are available for delegates to access via the link below.

Access your Scotland Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2022 delegate resources here.

09.45 Chair’s opening remarks
Sue Macdonald, Maternity and Midwifery Festival Programme Curator; Editor, Mayes Midwifery

10.00 Moving forward from Ockenden
Professor Mary Renfrew OBE, Professor Emerita, University of Dundee

10.20 Challenges and opportunities for contemporary midwifery in Scotland
Dr Mary Ross Davie, Director of Midwifery, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

10.40 Audience Q&A

10:50 Break

11.30 The OASI 2 project: bringing lasting change to practice
Lizzie Phillips, Specialist Perineal Midwife, University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust; Clinical Midwifery Lead OASI 2

11.50 The RCM Re: Birth Project
Lia Brigante, Midwife, Policy and Practice Advisor, Royal College of Midwives

12.10 Audience Q&A

12:20: Announcement of the Maternity & Midwifery Forum Trailblazers Award Winners

12:30 Break

13:30 Parallel Seminars

A1: Interdisciplinary and multi-agency working; understanding and responding to additional care needs
Verena Wallace MBE, Senior Midwifery Adviser (Policy), Professional Practice Directorate, Nursing & Midwifery Council

B1: Down’s Syndrome – a toolkit for care from pregnancy to parenthood
Varshali Swadi, Family Support Service Officer, Down’s Syndrome Scotland and Charlotte Wright, Parent

C1: Discursive constructions of professional identity – the myth of the midwife
Dr Connie McLuckie, Lead Midwife for Education, Edinburgh Napier University

14:00 Parallel Seminars

A2: Sustaining the maternity workforce
Dr Jan Smith, Founder and CEO, Healthy You Ltd

B2: Building continuity of care experiences into the curriculum: student and academic co-production of midwifery education
Dr Yvonne Greig, Midwifery Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University

C2: Midwife-led care: A single mixed-methods synthesis
Professor Yvonne Kuipers, Professor of Midwifery, Edinburgh Napier University

14:35 Break

15:10 Parallel Seminars

A3: A different way of being: an exploratory study of the influence of a single antenatal relaxation class (ARC) on perinatal psychological wellbeing and childbirth experience
Mo Tabib, Midwifery Lecturer, Robert Gordon University

B3: Language and cultural issues in informed consent
Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and Dr Jenny Patterson, Lecturer in Midwifery, Edinburgh Napier University

C3: How to evaluate the Scottish shortened midwifery programme – An exploration of stakeholders’ perceptions
Suzanne Crozier, Associate Professor and Professor Yvonne Kuiper, Professor of Midwifery, Edinburgh Napier University

15:45  Parallel Seminars

A4: Why didn’t anyone tell me this could happen? How to talk to parents about postpartum psychosis
Naomi Gilbert, National Campaigns and Policy Coordinator, and Dr Sally Wilson, National Training and Research Coordinator, Action on Postpartum Psychosis

B4: (REPEAT) Language and cultural issues in informed consent
Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and Dr Jenny Patterson, Lecturer in Midwifery, Edinburgh Napier University

C4: Reflection and revalidation: getting prepared
Dr Jenny Hall, Editor, Maternity and Midwifery Forum and MATFLIX

16.15 Festival closes

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