Profiles And Contributions To This Article

'Mind you, there's no anaesthetist on the road': women's experiences of labouring en route

Elaine  Dietsch

Elaine Dietsch

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, supervised data collection, wrote the first draft, original concept

position: Research fellow; and senior lecturer

Australia

Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga in rural Australia). Key research interests: Midwifery, women's health, maternity services, traditional midwifery in Africa, qualitative research methods, violence against women, sexual assault. I work with women who have survived torture and traditional midwives in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Kenya in a voluntary capacity for 4 - 6 weeks per annum.


Pamela  Shackleton

Pamela Shackleton

qualifications: MEd

contribution: literature review, collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Lecturer


Carmel  Davies

Carmel Davies

qualifications: MTH

contribution: collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Lecturer

Australia


Margaret  Alston

Margaret Alston

qualifications: PhD

contribution: collected data

position: Professor

Australia

Margaret Alston is Professor of Social Work and Human services and Director of the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University. Her research interests revolve around rural social issues and issues of significance to rural women


Margaret  McLeod

Margaret McLeod

qualifications: PhD

contribution: collected data

position: Director

rural nursing and midwifery mental health civilian and military nursing history qualitative methodologies


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