Cardiff Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Cardiff City FC, Cardiff City Stadium, Leckwith Road, Cardiff CF11 8AZ
Sue Macdonald
Maternity and Midwifery Festival Programme Curator and Editor, Mayes Midwifery
Dr Carmen Power
Author of Birth, Bonding and Baby Behaviour.
Keelie Grindley
Lead midwife for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Royal Stoke Hospital – University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Caitlin Wilson
Professional Advisor, Midwife (Education and Career Development), Royal College of Midwives
Amanda Hutcherson
Education Consultant, Knitting and Creative Wellbeing
Marie Watkyns
Founder, Little Light Support
Dr Jenny Hall
Editor, MATFLIX and Maternity & Midwifery Forum newsletter; former Editor, The Practising Midwife
Ruth Weston
Birth Activist, Speaker, Author of Born Stroppy: Make Change Happen
Nicole Stuart
Founder, Early Career Midwife Network; Midwife, University Hospitals North Midlands
Sheena Byrom OBE
Co-Director, All4Maternity
Neil Stewart
Editorial Director, MATFLIX/Maternity & Midwifery Forum
Emma Gilpin
Reach Liaison Nurse
Nicky Clark
Freelance Midwife Educationalist
Julian Hallett
Services Development Manager, Down’s Syndrome Association
Dr Jeanne Lythgoe
Senior Lecturer in Midwifery
Kathryn Bond
Programme Leader for Post RN MSc Midwifery, University of Salford
Victoria Pirie
Specialist Contraception Midwife, Gloucestershire NHS Trust
Miranda Glen
Coordinator for Wales, Antenatal Results & Choices
Amy Griffiths
PhD Researcher, Swansea University
Dr Sarah Milosevic
Research Associate, Cardiff University
Dr Anne Leyland
Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Salford
Eleanor Healer
Medico-Legal Trainer
Imogen Williams
Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Research Associate, University of Bristol
Liz Newbury-Davies
Principal Public Health Practitioner, Public Health Wales
Alix Morrison
Final year Student Midwife
Dr Hayley Morgan
MARG Chair, MARG Research Subgroup Chair, Doctoral Researcher and Author
