Bournemouth University’s Women’s Health Podcast series aims to raise awareness for women’s health and current research supported by BU’s Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health.
The first series of five episodes is now available to listen to. You can find BU podcasts on Soundcloud, Spotify or iTunes. This series covers a breadth of topics:
Episode 1 - Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health
Professor of Midwifery, Vanora Hundley; Professor in Physiotherapy, Carol Clark, and Dr Catherine Angell, Head of Department for Midwifery & Health Sciences introduced the centre’s key areas of research:
- Infant feeding and postnatal care
- Care for mothers and babies in low and middle-income countries
- Early labour care
- Women’s health
This podcast discussed the Women’s Health Strategy for England and BU’s commitment to ensuring that midwifery students can offer excellent infant feeding support.
Episode 2 - Social media and midwifery
Anna Marsh, a Clinical Academic Midwife based between BU and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust talked about her research on the use of social media within maternity services and her career journey. Anna also talked about her publication co-written with Professor Vanora Hundley, ‘It’s time for healthcare professionals to engage with social media’.
Episode 3 – Pelvic floor dysfunction
This episode featured Rosie Harper, Clinical Academic at BU and Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Dorset, and Sally Sheppard, Service Lead in Physiotherapy at University Hospitals Dorset Poole Pelvic Health Physiotherapy and Clinical Supervisor and Visiting Fellow at BU. They discussed pelvic floor dysfunction, current NHS support, and future developments to support those affected by symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction. Rosie also talked about the humorous social media campaign she worked on to help promote pelvic floor health.
Episode 4 – Women’s sexual health
Dr Emma Thurston, Senior Lecturer of Physician Associate at BU, and General Practitioner with a special interest in women’s health talked about her research investigating if medicine’s neglect of female sexual pleasure is impacting the uptake of hormonal contraceptives. Emma talked about hormonal contraception, the portrayal of sex in media, women’s sexual pleasure taboos, sex education and much more.
Episode 5 – Menopause and exercise
Kate Rattley, PhD student and Human Performance Lab technician at BU talks about her research in exercise physiology. Kate’s research is looking at acute and chronic hormone deficits in menopause and the menstrual cycle.
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