BU Research Blog

Today was the first day of strategic planning for the MIHERC project. Our collaborators from Sheffield and Doncaster came down to Bournemouth University to discuss progress, meet with midwifery practitioners from University Hospital Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, and plan action for the coming year.  MIHERC comprises an interdisciplinary team, led by Prof. Hora Soltani at Sheffield Hallam University, which has members from ethnically and professionally diverse colleagues from Sheffield Hallam University, Bournemouth University and Doncaster City Council.

Professors Vanora Hundley and Edwin van Teijlingen from the Centre for Midwifery and Women’s Health (CMWH), and Prof. Huseyin Dogan and Dr. Deniz Cetinkaya from the Department of Computing and Informatics are the key Bournemouth University applicants in MIHERC (Maternal & Infant Health Equity Research Centre).  Further Bournemouth University academics have been incorporated since its start, these include: Drs. Malika Felton, Orlanda Harvey, Dominique Mylod and Daisy Wiggins.  MIHERC is one of the nine NIHR-funded groups to tackle inequalities in UK maternal healthcare as part of the NIHR Challenge Call: Maternity Disparities Consortium.   We are proud that of the nine funded groupings across the UK, MIHERC is the only one that is midwifery led.