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Biography
Farzaneh Pazandeh is an Assistant Professor in the Midwifery professional group at the School of Health Sciences and a member of the Maternal Health & Wellbeing Research Group. Farzaneh has worked for over 30 years as a midwife, lecturer and researcher of Maternal and Reproductive Health. She holds an MSc in midwifery education and obtained her PhD in Maternal Health from the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (University of Nottingham) in Maternal Health.
Expertise Summary
Her methodological expertise is qualitative research, mixed methods, action research and Randomised Controlled Trial. Farzaneh has also provided consultancy in developing countries as a Midwifery and SRH consultant. She worked in the UNFPA Kabul and Tehran offices as a Midwifery and SRH consultant. She evaluated the midwifery program and developed a strategic plan in the Kabul Medical University and designed the project of assessing Afghan refugee women's maternal health in Iran. She also supervised some projects on reducing maternal mortality.
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Teaching Summary
Dr Farzaneh Pazandeh has over 30 years of experience in teaching maternal health and healthcare quality improvement. She joined the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham in 2020.… read more
Research Summary
Farzaneh conducted qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research on maternal and reproductive health and published papers in peer-reviewed international journals.
Her research interests include care during early labour and childbirth, promoting evidence-based practice and respectful maternity care, and women's care experiences, particularly from a disadvantaged background (refugee, migrant and ethnic minority groups). Her current research concerns evaluating and improving quality of maternity care.
Farzaneh has supervised PhD theses on Maternal Health, including projects using action research to implement evidence-based practices during labour and childbirth and developing scales to evaluate women's respectful care experiences in Iran.
PhD students
- Supatch Kuakarn: Perceptions on companion of choice in labour and birth in Southern Thailand (2022-2026)
- Fawziya Alghamdi: Women's childbirth care experiences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2023-2026)
- Antarini: Mothers' experiences of seeking care during childbirth in Indonesia (2023-2026)
- Dima Swalha: Feasibility and acceptability of midwifery-led intrapartum care in Jordan: (2025)
External Examination
- PhD: University of Huddersfield
- PhD: Leeds Beckett University
Selected Publications
AYOUBI, SEDIGHEH, PAZANDEH, FARZANEH, SIMBAR, MASOUMEH, MORIDI, MARYAM, ZARE, ELHAM and POTRATA, BARBARA, 2020. A questionnaire to assess women's perception of respectful maternity care (WP-RMC): Development and psychometric properties MIDWIFERY. 80, MORIDI, MARYAM, PAZANDEH, FARZANEH, HAJIAN, SEPIDEH and POTRATA, BARBARA, 2020. Midwives' perspectives of respectful maternity care during childbirth: A qualitative study PLOS ONE. 15(3),
Dr Farzaneh Pazandeh has over 30 years of experience in teaching maternal health and healthcare quality improvement. She joined the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham in 2020. She leads the Research Skills module within the BSc Midwifery program and the Fundamentals of Safety, Quality and Improvement Science module for the QPSI MSc program.