Fiona Judge

Fiona is Head of Subject, Midwifery and Lead Midwife for Education. Her career in health care began in 1979 when she started her nurse training at King’s College Hospital, qualifying in 1982. With the view to becoming a Health Visitor she moved to York to train as a midwife qualifying in Bristol in 1985. Working as a midwife in Bristol Fiona was keen to travel and all thoughts of Health Visiting were overshadowed by this goal and in 1987 she travelled to New Zealand to work as a midwife in a hospital in south Auckland for 18 months. Working with women and families from white, Maori and Pacific Island ethnic groups was interesting and challenging and Fiona learnt much about culture, pregnancy, birth and parenting alongside midwifery practice. Returning to London she worked as a community midwife in central London for 5 years before leaving to study full time, achieving a BA (Hons) in History and Health Studies in 1998.

Fiona moved to Suffolk in 1999 to take up her first teaching post as a Lecturer in Midwifery at Suffolk College, where she completed her teaching certificate in 2002. Fiona became a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in 2007. Following 3 years of part time study she completed her MSc Public Health in 2009. Continuing as course leader and developing course management and teaching practice further was hugely satisfying and working with the many changes occurring in health care and education proved stimulating, challenging and satisfying. In 2021 Fiona took over as Lead Midwife for Education responsible for the quality of midwifery education provision at the University of Suffolk and in 2022 became Head of Subject managing the midwifery team which is a huge privilege.