London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026
Wednesday 11 February 2026 | Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0DG
Dr Claire Feeley
Senior Lecturer and Midwifery/Maternal Health Researcher, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, Kings College London
Dr Claire Feeley is a Senior Lecturer of Midwifery at King’s College London with an emphasis on research within her role.
As an experienced clinical midwife, educator and researcher, Claire specialises in normal birth across the risk spectrum, water immersion, human rights framework, midwifery practice, skill and competence – all within a sociocultural-political lens.
Claire’s personal research has included freebirthing, midwives supporting out of guidelines normal birth care with numerous collaborations in a wider range of topic areas i.e. assisted vaginal birth, experiences of pharmacological/non-pharmacological pain relief methods, water immersion outcomes and experiences, parents’ psychosocial needs during neonatal unit care, patient and public involvement during innovation and continuity of care implementation.
Central to all of Claire’s work – education, research and practice is the improvement of maternity service delivery to meet the needs of all those within our care.
