Grace Thomas
Reader & Professional Head: Midwifery/LME
- thomassg4@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 225 10685
- Room 511, 5th Floor, Eastgate House, 35 - 43 Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 OAB
Main Roles and Responsibilities
I am Professional Head of Midwifery Education and Lead Midwife for Education at Cardiff University. My passion is to help women achieve a positive birth experience, regardless of the type of birth, and to enable students and midwives alike to have the skills and confidence to safely support women in their achievement of this. I have presented widely across the UK and internationally and was joint recipient of the RCM Excellence in Education Award in 2011 for the Medicines & Midwives (MaM) project.
Academic Interests
Joint lead for All Wales initiative to produce on-line training module for midwives on perinatal mental health (Chair of All Wales Perinatal Mental Health Forum)
Currently working with RCM to develop on-line training for numeracy skills for midwives
Member of Wales Midwifery 20:20 "Core Role of the Midwife" work stream & Wales representative on Scotland "Public Health" work stream
Lead for developing Maternity Pathway using the Map of Medicine
Member of review team for Safer Childbirth (RCOG / RCM / RCOP / RCOA)
Member of NMC Essential Skills Cluster (normality) for review of undergraduate midwifery curriculum
Journal reviewer for BJM and AJM
International and national conference speaker
Winner of Heads of Midwifery Advisory Group Award 2007 for partnership working.
Professional memberships
Member of Royal College of Midwives
Member of Consultant Nurse Midwife Allied Health Professional Cymru group
Past Chair of RCM Consultant Midwives Group Cymru
Chair of All Wales Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research Forum
Peer reviewer for 29th Triennial Congress International Confederation of Midwives, June 2011, Durban South Africa
Joint lead researcher on 'Mapping Maternity Care & Outcomes in Wales' project (funded by Royal College of Midwives £6K)
Joint lead applicant - achieved £10K CELT Grant for 'Medicines & Midwives' project November 2009 - awarded RCM Excellence in Midwifery Education Award in 2011 for this work
Research: Centre Collaborator / Principal Investigator for SELAN Trial (international RCT on latent phase of labour led by University of Toronto)
Principal Investigator for HELP Trial (led by SEWTU)
Waterbirth Research Development Group collaborator (CYPP Research Network)
Health Professions Wales Research Training Fellowship 2005-2006
Member of Cochrane review body for Cochrane proposal on perineal cooling
Research on membrane sweeping
MSc Research on the Expectant Father