Tania McIntosh

Contact

• workAcademic Division of Midwifery
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 8230981
• fax0115 8231 930
• tania.mcintosh@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Originally an historian, with a PhD in history from the University of Sheffield, focusing on the history of maternity care in the City. A qualified midwife since 2003, now employed as a Lecturer in Midwifery, based at Queen's Medical Centre.

Expertise Summary

History of: all aspects of reproductive health, including midwifery, maternity, women's health, childbirth, abortion.

Midwifery education, in particular the experience of students.

Recent Research Supervisees

Kim Russell (title: Changing labour ward midwives water birth practice: an action research study)

Onje Yuill (title: An exploration of women's needs during the postnatal period. A feminist; hermeneutic phenomenological study)

Teaching Summary

Personal Teacher Link teacher to B26 Ward (QMC) and Sneinton/StAnns/Carlton Community areas Intake leader for pre-registration midwifery students Co-ordinator for Safe-guarding training… read more

Research Summary

Research interest in the history of midwifery and the maternity services, 1902-2002

Recent Publications

• 2012. From public to private: the history of domestic abuse in Britain The Practising Midwife. 15(2), 20-1
• 2012. A social history of maternity care Routledge. (In Press.)
• 2012. Historical investigations into the professional self-regulation of Nursing and Midwifery: Volume 2: Midwifery Nursing and Midwifery Council. (In Press.)
• 2011. Using historical research to make sense of our past, present and future: Part 2: uncovering source material The Practising Midwife. 14(2), 27-9

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• Personal Teacher
• Link teacher to B26 Ward (QMC) and Sneinton/StAnns/Carlton Community areas
• Intake leader for pre-registration midwifery students
• Co-ordinator for Safe-guarding training within the Division of Midwifery
• I teach in the following areas: sociology applied to midwifery, history of midwifery, evidence based practice and research skills, social policy

Past Research

History of Stourbridge Fair in Cambridge

History of maternity care in Sheffield

Future Research

Midwifery 1960-2000

• 2012. From public to private: the history of domestic abuse in Britain The Practising Midwife. 15(2), 20-1
• 2012. A social history of maternity care Routledge. (In Press.)
• 2012. Historical investigations into the professional self-regulation of Nursing and Midwifery: Volume 2: Midwifery Nursing and Midwifery Council. (In Press.)
• 2011. Using historical research to make sense of our past, present and future: Part 2: uncovering source material The Practising Midwife. 14(2), 27-9
• MCINTOSH, T, 2011. Using historical research to make sense of our past, present and future: Part 3: Finding and using historical sources The Practising Midwife. 14(4), 37-8
• 2011. Using historical research to make sense of our past, present and future: Part 4: history in context and disseminating findings The Practising Midwife. 14(7), 35-6
• 2011. Direct maternal deaths due to puerperal fever: back to the future? British Journal of Midwifery. 19(4), 212-4
• 2010. Exploring the history of birth: a case study of midwifery care in 1930s England MIDIRS Midwifery Digest. 20(2), 159-63
• 2010. Using historical research to make sense of our past, present and future: Part 1: Why explore history? The Practising Midwife. 13(11), 34-5
• 2010. Evaluation of whether midwife teachers bring a unique contribution particularly in the context of outcomes for women and their families: The MINT project Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• 2009. History of midwifery: professional luxury or essential legacy? MIDIRS Midwifery Digest. 19(4), 488-91
• 2000. Born in Sheffield: A history of the women's health services, 1864-2000 Wharncliffe Books.
• 2000. "An abortionist City": Maternal mortality, abortion, and birth control in Sheffield, 1920-1940 Medical History. 44(1), 75-96
• 1998. The decline of Stourbridge Fair, 1770-1934 Friends of the Department of English Local History.
• 1998. Profession, skill or domestic duty? Midwifery in Sheffield, 1881-1936 Social History of Medicine. 11(3), 403-20