Sandie Sandbrook

Senior Lecturer

Current Responsibilities:

• Teaching on RM BSc Hons programme, post registration programmes and Maternity Care (Student Nurses)
• Module Leader: MI1014 & MI2037
• Cross School Role:  Research
• Site Co-ordinator:  Queens Hospital Foundation Trust, Burton –on-Trent
• Clinical Liaison:  Antenatal Clinic, Delivery Suite Community, & Samuel Johnson Midwife-Led Unit (Lichfield).
• Personal student tutorial and pastoral guidance
• Academic counselling

Research activity over last three years:

Successful completion of PhD - “Love or Protection? Defining and measuring maternal-foetal attachment from the woman’s perspective.” 

Mixed methodology used to produce a validated psycho-metric tool to measure maternal-foetal attachment.

Phase One: Qualitative Study which explored the pregnant women’s perceptions and experiences of Maternal-Foetal Attachment completed (Results published)

Phase Two: The definition generated from Phase I was used as a framework to develop a psycho-metric tool.  This was then validated using rigorous quantitative methods as a reliable measuring tool for Maternal-foetal attachment.

Email: S.P.Sandbrook@wlv.ac.uk