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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 childbirth education: new curriculum design. Implementation and evaluation (Phase Two)
Muggleton, S., Davis, D. & Nissen, J.
1/07/18 → 21/12/18
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
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Does continuity of midwifery care increase vaginal birth after caeseran (VBAC): A randomised controlled trial-via UTS
1/01/12 → 31/08/16
Project: Other
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Applying Salutogenesis in Midwifery Practice
Muggleton, S. & Davis, D., 2022, The Handbook of Salutogenesis . Mittelmark, M. B., Bauer, G. F., Vaandrager, L., Pelikan, J. M., Sagy, S., Eriksson, M., Lindström, B. & Meier Magistretti, C. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, p. 459-464 6 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review
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Birth plans: A systematic, integrative review into their purpose, process, and impact
Bell, M. C. H., Muggleton, S. & Davis, D. L., 25 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Midwifery. 111, p. 1-11 11 p., 103388.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review 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., Feb 2022, In: Women and Birth. 35, 1, p. e84-e90 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Factors influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's breastfeeding practice: A scoping narrative review
Zheng, C. X., Atchan, M., Hartz, D., Davis, D. & Kurz, E., 8 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Women and Birth. p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Impact of a quality improvement project to reduce the rate of obstetric anal sphincter injury: a multicentre study with a stepped-wedge design: OASI care bundle
Scamell, M., Thornton, J., Hales, K., Renfew, M., Dahlen, H., Jowit, M., Downe, S., Gillman, L., Grace, N., Wiseman, O., Forman, J., Grace, N., Davis, D., Madeley, A. M., Chippington, D., Lawther, L. & Burns, E., Jan 2022, In: BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 129, 1, p. 174-175 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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