Wellbeing of Women

2009 Grants

Medical and Midwifery Student Elective Bursaries 2009

20 bursaries have been awarded this year.

Medical and Midwifery Student Elective Bursaries 2009
20 bursaries have been awarded this year.

Bursaries were awarded to:

Miss Kosnatu Abdulai, University of Oxford, to visit The Blue Ventures Family Planning Project in Madagascar.

Miss Anna Jeffery-Smith, University of Oxford, who will undertake practical work in obstetrics in hospital and the community, and an audit into how well WHO recommendations for magnesium sulphate use in pre-eclampsia are implemented in Grenada.

Miss Katherine Speirs, University of Birmingham, for a study entitled The impact of cultural and religious beliefs on healthcare in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Mr Adrian Mahon, Kingston University & St George’s, University of London, who will visit Uganda for his project The Effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) on Maternity Services in Africa.

Miss Jennifer Deas, Southampton University, who is to study maternity care in Nepal.

Miss Hayley Boyce, Newcastle University, who will compare the experience of and access to obstetric and gynaecological services in rural and urban settings in Uganda.

Ms Rachel Lex, King’s College London, who will visit the National White Ribbon Alliance of Uganda headquarters, based in Kampala.

Mr Neil Singh, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, for an elective entitled How Maternal Nutritional Status Determines Immediate Post-Caesarean Outcomes in Rural India.

Miss Ashley Pedersen, Liverpool John Moores University, who will study facilitating normal birth in the 21st century in the Gambia.

Mrs Clare Aldridge, Worcester University, to observe caseload midwifery in practise in the UK.

Miss Meena Rafiq, St. George’s, University of London, for her elective in Boston: Use of fetal surgery to repair aortic stenosis and the practicalities of introducing this procedure in the UK.

Miss Niharika Lal, University of Dundee, who will study obstetrics in Belize.

Miss Nicola Linscott, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She will undertake a project entitled Gestational diabetes; its diagnosis, management and perinatal outcomes in Tonga.

Mr John Wahba, Imperial College London, to carry out a Sub internship in obstetrics and gynaecology in New York followed by a period at the gynaecology department of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Mrs Karen Nuttall, University of Salford, who will gain experience of caseload midwifery practice in the UK.

Miss Harriet Burn, University of Leeds, School of Medicine, to carry out a study entitled What is the relationship between antenatal care provision and severe anaemia in pregnancy at Umdawanban Rural Hospital and surrounding area?

Miss Helen Turley, Northumbria University, for her elective: Breastfeeding in Denmark: What can British midwives learn from our Scandinavian neighbours? Adopting best practice towards achieving the government's infant feeding targets.

Miss Bhavna Gami, University of East Anglia, to visit the Gillette Centre for Gynaecologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital to investigate radiation toxicity after pelvic cancers including gynaecological cancers.

Miss Nansi Evans, Nottingham University, to study community based midwifery in Ontario, Canada.

Miss Anna Kent, Nottingham University, who will study repair of fistula derived from an obstructed labour in Ethiopia.

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