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Biography
Professor Davis came to the ACT to take up the role of Clinical Chair in Midwifery with the University of Canberra and ACT Government Health Directorate in 2011. Previous to that she had a similar role with the University of Technology, Sydney and South East Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service and had also spent many enjoyable years working as a midwife and midwifery lecturer in New Zealand.
Professor Davis has worked as a privately practicing midwife in Australia and New Zealand providing care to women choosing both home and hospital births. She is active in the profession, serving several terms on the Board of the Australian College of Midwives, and currently co-chairing the Research Standing Committee of the International Confederation of Midwives.
Areas of Teaching
Professor Davis teaches into the undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery programs mainly foucsing on topics related to research. She enjoys supervising Bachelor of Midwifery Honours, Masters and Doctoral research students.
Research Interests
Professor Davis has a number of research interests that cohere around central themes of wellness, physiological birth and midwifery led care. She is interested in salutogenic theory and has designed and evaluated a number of interventions using this theory. She is interested in midwifery led interventions that enhance the wellness or experience of childbearing women and their family inlcuidng those that assist women to have a healthy weight gain in pregnancy.
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Projects
- 5 Finished
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Promoting Workplace Culture
Muggleton, S., Davis, D., Atchan, M. & Perkins, H.
23/07/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Other
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Centenary Hospital for Women and Children’s Antenatal Education Program Evaluation (Phase One)
Muggleton, S., Davis, D. & Fowler, C.
1/07/16 → 30/06/17
Project: Other
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Eating4TWO:optimising gestational weight gain smartphone application
Davis, D., Davey, R. & Williams, L.
1/01/16 → 31/03/17
Project: Other
Research output
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Biophysical effects, safety and efficacy of raspberry leaf use in pregnancy: a systematic integrative review
Bowman, R., Taylor, J., Muggleton, S. & Davis, D., 9 Feb 2021, In: BMC complementary medicine and therapies. 21, 1, p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Developing an instrument to measure satisfaction with continuity of midwifery care drawing on the Delphi technique
Perriman, N., Davis, D. L. & Muggleton, S., 16 Jan 2021, In: Women and Birth. p. 1-7 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Decision Aid for midwifery continuity of care: Development and pilot acceptability testing
Hindmarsh, C. & Davis, D. L., Dec 2020, In: Women and Birth. p. 1-7 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Barriers and enablers in maintaining healthy gestational weight gain: A qualitative study
White, C. & Davis, D., 14 Sep 2020, In: Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated. p. 1-7 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Barriers and facilitators in antenatal settings to screening and referral of pregnant women who use alcohol or other drugs: A qualitative study of midwives’ experience
Oni, H. T., Buultjens, M., Blandthorn, J., Davis, D., Abdel-latif, M. & Islam, M. M., 1 Feb 2020, In: Midwifery. 81, p. 1-8 8 p., 102595.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review