Fulbourn
0845 196 5335
lesley.kay@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Membership

• Master of Studies in Primary and Community Care (Cambridge University)
• Postgraduate Certificate of Medical Education
• NMC Registered Teacher
• Newborn Life Support Provider
• Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Provider
• Work Based Learning & Assessment in Health & Social Care
• NVQ Assessor & Verifier Series
• BSc (Hons) Pre-Registration Midwifery
• Registered Midwife
• BA (Hons) English literature

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness to Practice Panel

Courses

• Module Leader 'Birth and Beyond'
• Module Tutor 'Evidenced Informed Midwifery Practice'
• Personal Tutor
• Link Lecturer Hinchingbrooke Trust
• UGMP Dissertation Supervisor
• Education Champion Cambridgeshire Midwifery

Outline of career

Lesley has worked as an academic at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge since January 2009 and was promoted to a Senior Lecturer post in July 2010. In October 2010 she started a PhD at the University of Central Lancashire under the supervision of Professor Soo Downe. Alongside her lecturer role she sits on the NMC Fitness to Practice Panel as member of the 'Conduct and Competence' panel. Prior to working in education she worked as a Midwifery Team Leader in a Community Based team in the Cambridgeshire area. Lesley completed a Master of Studies degree at the University of Cambridge in 2007. She qualified as a midwife in 2000 after completing a direct entry midwifery programme.

Research interest

Lesley is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) under the supervision of Dr Soo Downe.

Project title: A hermeneutic phenomenological study considering how other women's birth stories construct and reconstruct the meaning of birth for primigravida women

Selected Publications

Book chapter
Byrom, S., Kay, L. 2011. Midwifery Leadership: theory, practice and potential. In: Downe, S., Byrom, S., Simpson, L. eds. 2011. Essential Midwifery Practice: Expertise, leadership and collaborative working. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Ch 1.

Peer reviewed article
Kay, L. 2010. Leading other midwives: experience of midwife team leaders. British Journal of Midwifery, 18 (12), pp. 764-769.

Other articles
Kay, L. 2011. Participation in and a critical review of educational audit. The Practising Midwife, 14 (3) pp. 31-32.

Kay, L. 2011. Assessing and implementing approved assessment procedures. The Practising Midwife, 14 (1) pp. 29-30.

Kay, L. 2010. Evaluating a module. The Practising Midwife, 13 (10) pp. 34-35.

Kay, L. 2010. End of the Journey? The Practising Midwife. 16, (7) p. 46.

Russell, K., Durkin, L., O'Brien, M., Kay, L., Peters, S. 2010. Can conferences add value to midwifery practice? The Practising Midwife. 16, (7) pp. 40-41.

Kay, L. 2010. Donning the mask. The Practising Midwife, 13 (4) p. 25.

Kay, L. 2009. Sink or swim? The Practising Midwife, 12 (11) p. 30.

Kay, L. 2009. Still a midwife? The transition from clinician to Educator. The Practising Midwife, 12 (8) p. 26.

Conference presentations
Bottom, H., Kay, L. 2010. 'Belly Dancing and True Female Power'. In: RCM (Royal College of Midwives) Maternity Services in a Changing World. Manchester Central, 16-17 November 2010. RCM: Manchester.

Kay, L. 2010. 'Starting the Journey: formulating a research proposal for the purposes of a PhD'. . In: RCM (Royal College of Midwives) Maternity Services in a Changing World. Manchester Central, 16-17 November 2010. RCM: Manchester.

Kay, L. 2009. 'Leading other midwives'. A Critical Ethnographic Inquiry Exploring the Experience of Midwife Team Leaders. In: RCM (Royal College of Midwives) Pioneering the Mother and Baby Pathway. Manchester Central, 26-27 November 2010. RCM: Manchester.

Kay, L. 2009. 'Leading other midwives'. A Critical Ethnographic Inquiry Exploring the Experience of Midwife Team Leaders. In: University of Worcester Women and Birth: Politics, Power and Practice Conference. University of Worcester, 14-15 July 2009. University of Worcester: Worcester.