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Personal profile
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
Promoting Workplace Culture
Muggleton, S., Davis, D., Atchan, M. & Perkins, H.
23/07/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Other
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
Eating4TWO:optimising gestational weight gain smartphone application
Davis, D., Davey, R. & Williams, L.
1/01/16 → 31/03/17
Project: Other
Research Output
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
Editorial: Words matter; language matters
Homer, C., Wilson, A. & Davis, D., Mar 2020, In : Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated. 33, 2, p. 105-106 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Open Access
Salutogenic qualities of midwifery care: A best-fit framework synthesis
Mathias, L. A., Davis, D. & Ferguson, S., 20 Apr 2020, In : Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated. p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The future in their hands: Graduating student midwives’ plans, job satisfaction and the desire to work in midwifery continuity of care
Evans, J., Taylor, J., Browne, J., Ferguson, S., Atchan, M., Maher, P., Homer, C. S. & Davis, D., Feb 2020, In : Women and Birth. 33, 1, p. e59-e66 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
3
Citations
(Scopus)
Acknowledging the primacy of continuity of care experiences in midwifery education
Gamble, J., Sidebotham, M., Gilkison, A., Davis, D. & Sweet, L., 28 Sep 2019, In : Women and Birth. p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
2
Citations
(Scopus)