Becky Sawyer
Senior Lecturer in Midwifery
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338641
- b.sawyer@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health
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Becky Sawyer is a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and the Deputy Course Leader for the Midwifery BSc (Hons) and the Midwifery [Short] BSc (Hons). She is a Registered Midwife and joined the University of Suffolk in 2018. She has completed her PGCAP and MSc in Advanced Midwifery Practice and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Becky is also trained to be a hypnobirthing teacher and continues to work doing bank shifts within the local trust. Becky is passionate about students understanding research, so has led on taught research modules and written an Understanding Research Series for The Practising Midwife Journal. Becky's research interests surround societal perceptions and understanding of pregnancy and birth and she has recently applied to start a PhD to explore this further.
Becky has taught across all of the modules of the undergraduate midwifery BSc programme. She is currently the module leader for the Dissertation module, The Research Project and Continuum of Midwifery Practice.
Becky has explored midwifery student’s experiences of the research methods module as part of the PGCAP SSRI. Additionally, Becky has undertaken a qualitative exploration of midwifery student’s experiences of online learning during the covid-19 pandemic.
Becky’s research interests are around societal perceptions and knowledge of pregnancy and birth, to then look at the possible impact this may have on birth experience. A research proposal has been submitted for a PhD to explore this further.
The Understanding Research Series comprises of 11 articles published bi-monthly from 2019 until 2021 in The Practising Midwife.
Baker, B. and Chenery-Morris, S. (2021) Understanding Research 11: Critiquing the literature and disseminating your findings, The Practising Midwife, 24(6), p25-29
Baker, B. and Chenery-Morris, S. (2021) Understanding Research 10: Analysing qualitative and quantitative data, The Practising Midwife, 24(4), p27-31
Baker, B. and Chenery-Morris, S. (2021) Understanding Research 9: Methods of data collection in quantitative methodologies: documentary methods and clinical measurements, The Practising Midwife, 24 (1), p24-28
Baker, B. and Chenery-Morris, S. (2020) Understanding Research 8: Methods of data collection in qualitative methodologies: observation, Interviews and focus groups. The Practising Midwife, 23(11), p21-26
Baker, B. and Chenery-Morris, S. (2020) Understanding Research 7: Quantitative methodologies: the ubiquitous survey, exploring descriptive and inferential statistics The Practising Midwife, 23(9), p26-30
Baker, B. and Chenery-Morris, S. (2020) Understanding Research 6: Quantitative methodologies: explaining experimental methods and non-experimental design, The Practising Midwife, 23(7) p24-28
Baker, B. and Chenery-Morris, S. (2020) Understanding Research 5. Qualitative methodologies continued: exploring ethnography, case study, action research and the more generic qualitative approach. The Practising Midwife, 23(5), p24-28
Baker, B and Chenery-Morris, S., (2020) Understanding Research Series: 4 Qualitative research methodologies: nuances between phenomenology, grounded theory and narrative research. The Practising Midwife, 23(3), p26-30
Baker, B and Chenery-Morris, S., (2019) Understanding Research Series: 3 Quantitative and Qualitative paradigms, principles and sampling. The Practising Midwife, 22(10), p26-29
Baker, B and Chenery-Morris, S., (2019) Understanding Research Series: 2 Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks and their application to midwifery knowledge and research, The Practising Midwife, 22(8), p26-29
Baker, B and Chenery-Morris, S., (2019) Understanding Research Series: 1 Philosophy in Midwifery, The Practising Midwife, 22(6), p26-30
Baker, R. (2019) Taking hold of an opportunity to move into education. The Practising Midwife, 22(3), P30-34.
- Nursing and Midwifery Council – Registered Midwife
- Royal College of Midwives – Member
- Higher Education Academy – Fellow