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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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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Project: Let’s have a yarn about the whooping cough vaccine
BUSHELL, M., Bowman, R., DAVIS, D., Hooper, M., Rose-Cutter, J., Little, N., JOJO, N., BARNWELL, M., Blackburn, J. & Bazargan, M.
13/06/24 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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SugarMumma: A smartphone app for the management of gestational diabetes
KNIGHT-AGARWAL, C., DAVIS, D., SALEH, A., KHAN, I. & MOHAMMADIAN, M.
13/11/22 → 14/11/23
Project: Research
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Increasing physical activity levels in women of childbearing age in CALD communities: A co-designed program
DAVIS, D., DOUGLAS, A., KURZ, E., KNIGHT-AGARWAL, C., Hooper, M., SHIELD, A., LEUNG, M., Patel, Z. & Spiller, S.
9/09/22 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
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Incorporating person centred care in the digital health record system
BAIL, K., PATERSON, C. & DAVIS, D.
26/07/21 → 25/07/24
Project: Research
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Promoting Workplace Culture
MUGGLETON, S., DAVIS, D., BARNWELL, M. & Perkins, H.
23/07/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
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Unstructured Parental Feedback at A Tertiary Maternity Hospital: A Cohort Study Using Routinely Collected Health Data
Abdel-Latif, M. E., Cheng, J., Todd, D. A., Davis, D., Alzahrani, N., Carlisle, H. & Hussain, R., 2025, In: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A systematic review of the barriers and facilitators to vaccination uptake in people from CALD communities in Australia
Hooper, M-E., Davis, D., Blackburn, J., Thomas, N., Bowman, R., Barnwell, M., Turner, M. R., Ladbrook, E., Bazargan, M. & Bushell, M., 26 Apr 2024, In: Centre of Systematic Reviews. PROSPERO. p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Other Journal Article › peer-review
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Care professionals' experiences within a multidisciplinary and cross-sectorial intervention for childbearing women and families in vulnerable positions: a focus group study
Nygaard, L., Davis, D. L., Ibsen, I. O., Pontoppidan, M., Nøhr, E. A. & Nielsen, D. S., 2024, In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. 19, 1, p. 1-11 11 p., 2410503.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects on Child Development and Parent-Child Interaction of the FACAM Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Study of an Interdisciplinary Intervention to Support Women in Vulnerable Positions through Pregnancy and Early Motherhood
Pontoppidan, M., Nygaard, L., Hirani, J. C., Thorsager, M., Friis-Hansen, M., Davis, D. & Nohr, E. A., 2 May 2024, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21, 5, p. 1-17 17 p., 587.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Examining the validity and reliability of the COMcareSS (Continuity of Midwifery Care Satisfaction Survey)
Perriman, N., Taylor, J. & Davis, D. L., Jul 2024, In: Women and Birth. 37, 4, p. 1-6 6 p., 101628.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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