Want to join our student midwife representative team? Read more to find out about all the opportunities at the Maternity and Midwifery Forum and Festival events, online and in-person.

 

Add to your portfolio, why not volunteer with us over the next semester?

 

5 ways to you can get involved as a midwifery student at the Maternity and Midwifery Forum and Festivals

 

1. Submit a conference paper or abstract

All Maternity and Midwifery Festivals taking place in 2024/2025 and the All-Ireland Nursing Festival Sláintecare 2025 is open to submit a paper for.

The Student Midwife Experience Festival is on 13^th November 2024, and we would like you to come and take part. Submit your paper today.

We are seeking presentations and poster submissions to form future seminar programmes 2024/25.

The call for papers is your opportunity to share your work with colleagues at the event itself and as part of the box set of filmed and audio recorded presentations that will be shared with healthcare professionals across the UK.

Please attach your conference paper or abstract in pdf or word format (ppt, pptx, pps, ppsx, pdf, doc, docx) along with any accompanying images (jpeg, jpg, png).

Submit a paper here.

 

2. Submit an award

SHOW APPRECIATION FOR A COLLEAGUE – The categories are:

Midwife Education Trailblazer
Has a midwifery lecturer shown exceptional leadership during the past year?  Have they inspired and motivated you to achieve your very best and supported you when the going got tough?  Would you like their commitment and dedication to be recognised amongst their peers around the UK?

Midwifery Practice leader Trailblazer
Has a midwifery leader in your trust shown exceptional leadership during the past year?  Have they inspired and motivated you to achieve your very best and supported you when the going got tough?  Would you like their commitment and dedication to be recognised amongst their peers around the UK?

Student Midwife Trailblazer

Do you know a student midwife that has individually made a difference to practice, study or in the community or with charities or has helped colleagues, organised online support, worked with tutors to make blended learning work or are you that student?

How to make a nomination:

Nominate your trust/school, your student society, online blogger/group, in-person midwifery group, someone extra ordinary, an innovator, a role model, someone who has overcome adversity, a leader who has made a difference to you, your colleagues or in the wider world.

Nominating is free of charge and simple.

Just send a 2 minute video nomination or a 300 word description clearly stating what the group or individual has done and the difference it has made to [email protected] stating the following:

• Your name, job title, workplace, email, tel no
• Award category
• Name of nominee

Submit your award nomination here.

 

3. Submit an article

 

Article specifications:

 

Want to share your voice and what you feel needs to be shared with the Maternity and Midwifery Forum Community. We have over 40500 social media followers combined and over 26500 email subscribers. Make your voice heard!

Most of our articles tend to be around 700-800 words, but we will accept anything between 400 and 2500 words.

See example here: https://maternityandmidwifery.co.uk/the-truth-about-advocating-as-a-student-midwife/

As you can see, we encourage links to other articles or websites and, of course, to any of your own – the title and source with the link embedded.

Please provide the article in a word document with links embedded and an image to support the article, sized 1560 x 1040px.

If you could specify any call to action, you want highlighted and do let us know who you would like the article credited to in the by line along with any contact details you’d like included, author, author picture and email address.

 

Submit your article here

 

4. Midwifery Hour online reviews for MATFLIX

 

Each week we run the Maternity and Midwifery Hour live stream each Wednesday at 7pm.

We are looking for students to give reviews on the hour 60 – 90 seconds long that we can share with our online community.

We will send you details of the hour in advance so you can explore the topic and set up how you will make your review, video review, audio review or blog review.

Here is an example.

The next series starts on 18^th September 2024, so don’t delay. Get in touch.

If you would like further information, please contact Debra Murray at [email protected].

 

5. Be a social media volunteer at your next local Maternity and Midwifery Festival

We need midwifery students and social media extraordinaries to come and join us on the day at the festival and do mini reviews of each presentation and get short reviews from fellow students, midwives, allied healthcare professionals of how they are finding the day.

If you would like further information, please contact Debra Murray at [email protected].