2018 Grant Recipients
March 13, 2018
Career Midwifery Research Grant recipients
Nicole Bennett
RM, PhD candidate
Nicole Bennett is the director of Ryerson University's Midwifery Education Program. Bennett and her team seek to understand how access to midwifery care in Ontario can be optimized for people with disabilities.
Liz Darling
RM, PhD
Liz Darling is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at McMaster University. Darling and her team will investigate how to improve prenatal care access for marginalized populations in Hamilton.
Beth Murray-Davis
RM, PhD
Beth Murray-Davis is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at McMaster University. By examining existing knowledge gaps, this research project aims to understand how midwifery care in Ontario can be improved for clients with diabetes, obesity and hypertension.
Mary Sharpe
RM, PhD
Mary is an associate professor in the Midwifery Education Program at Ryerson University. Sharpe's team is investigating an evidenced-based strategy to reduce GBS colonization through the use of oral probiotics.
Mentored Midwifery Research Grant recipients
Jen Goldberg
RM, MPH candidate
Jen Goldberg is working towards her master's in Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, with mentorship from Dr. Lori Ross. With an intersectional lens developed through community-based research, this study aims to explore Ontario midwives' attitudes towards sexual and gender minority people, including bisexual, lesbian, queer, trans, non-binary, genderqueer and Two-Spirit folks.
Ali McCallum, RM, MSc
Jenna Robertson Bly, RM, MA
Ali McCallum (left) and Jenna Robertson (right) are both working as locums in the Mississauga area. McCallum has recently completed a graduate degree in health-care quality from Queen’s University and Robertson holds an MA in educational leadership from McGill University. Along with mentor Elizabeth Allemang, they will be conducting a mixed methods study investigating the experiences of midwives in Ontario with homophobia, focusing on the impact this has on midwives and on their ability to provide high-quality client care.
Angela Reitsma
RM, MSc
Angela Reitsma is a midwife at Mountain Midwifery Care in Hamilton. She has a master's of science in clinical epidemiology and is a sessional instructor at McMaster University in the Midwifery Education Program. Reitsma will be using the awarded funding to complete a systematic review of birth outcomes associated with planned home compared with planned hospital birth and will be mentored by Dr. Eileen Hutton.