Daisy Wiggins

Dr Daisy Wiggins

  • u_dwiggins at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Senior Lecturer in Midwifery
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Biography

I am a midwife and a senior midwifery lecturer. I completed my doctorate in 2017 looking at women's decision making and choice of place of birth when a decision support tool (DST) is used as part of the clinical discussion. My area of interests including decision making, place of birth options, infant feeding (I am a BFI champion lecturer) and child safeguarding ( I am joint child safeguarding lead).

Favourites

  • Wiggins, D., Hundley, V.A., Wilkins, C., Bond, C., Walton, G., 2018. The effect of a birthplace decision support tool on women’s decision-making and information gathering behaviours during pregnancy: Mybirthplace study protocol. Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 25 (1), 1-6.

Journal Articles

Theses

  • Wiggins, D.. What role does the decision support tool "MyBirthplace" play in women’s information gathering and decision making about place of birth? Bournemouth University, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.

PhD Students

  • Louise Barton, 2027. An evaluation of a midwife-led, integrated smoke free pregnancy pathway, (In progress)

External Responsibilities

  • Portsouth Hospital Trust, Midwife (2013-)

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, Anonymous peer review, 23 Jan 2018
  • International Journal of Women's Health, Anonymous peer review, 27 Jun 2016

Qualifications

  • PGCE in PG CERTIFICATE EDUCATION PRACTICE – Level 7 (Bournemouth University, 2023)
  • PhD in Doctor of Philosophy (Bournemouth University, 2017)
  • BTEC Health and Social Care in Heatl and Social Care (2010)

Honours

  • 1st class Degree (Bournemouth University and Nursing and Midwifery council, 2013)

Memberships

  • RCM, Member (2013-),
  • NMC, Member (2013-),
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