51³Ô¹Ïapp

Mrs Sarah Kelly

Job: Senior Midwifery Lecturer

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Nursing and Midwifery

Address: De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 207 8108

E: sarah.kelly@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

I was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and my childhood was spent in Leicestershire. An early direct entry midwife, I qualified in 1999 and worked for the next 5 years at Sharoe Green Hospital in Preston, within a team specialising in high-risk pregnancies and those expected to have poor outcomes due to fetal anomalies. Then I worked for a further 2 years at Royal Preston Hospital when Sharoe Green was closed and then demolished. I was the midwife present at the last birth there.

In 2006, I moved to the Isle of Man. I was hospital-based again, but spent quite a few years in antenatal clinic, becoming involved in antenatal screening, patient information and education, and a debriefing service, mostly with women who had unresolved issues from a previous pregnancy, and were pregnant again. The regular hours in clinic enabled me to study for my MSc, and I graduated from Manchester Metropolitan in 2017. I had an article published in The Practising Midwife in 2014 that stemmed from my first MSc assignment. My undergraduate degree had been hard work, but during my MSc, I found a new love for studying and education.

In 2022, after completing my PgCert at Hull York Medical School the previous year, and to be closer to my family, I came back to my home county to work at 51³Ô¹Ïapp. It has been a daunting transition from practice to education, and it continues to challenge me to get out and stay out of my comfort zone.

Research interests/expertise

Patient information. Antenatal Screening

Areas of teaching

Midwifery

Qualifications

RM, BA(Hons), MSc, PgCHPE

Courses taught

BSc Midwifery

Membership of professional associations and societies

Association of Radical Midwives, Royal College of Midwives

Professional licences and certificates

Registered Midwife