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Our People

With Lab is a multidisciplinary women’s health research group led by Professor Zoe Bradfield. Our team of researchers, health professionals and service providers is committed to advancing women’s health through research that is ethical, inclusive and grounded in lived experience. Guided by our lab values of humble, hungry, brave, we work collaboratively, listen, and challenge existing policy, practice and systems to create meaningful and lasting change.

Professor Zoe Bradfield

PhD, MMid, PGC S&R Hlth, PG Dip Mid, BSc N, Dip Lang RM, RN

With Lab Team Lead

Professor of Midwifery, Zoe Bradfield is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow leading the With Lab

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Women's Health Research Fellow

Dr Lauren Spark

PhD, MHlth Sci, BPsySci

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Research Program Manager

Dr Julie Hibbert

PhD, MSc (Res), BSc (Hons)

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Midwife Research Associate

Georgia Griffin

Grad Dip Midwifery, BN

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Consumer Fellow

Karen Schlage

BA, LLB (Hons), Grad Dip Legal Practice, Churchill Fellow

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Midwifery Research Fellow

Dr Vanessa Watkins

PhD, BSc (Hons), Midwife, RN

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Project Officer

Kylie Ekin

MG-NURSPR, BHlthSc, GradCertHlthEcon, RN

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Midwifery Research Fellow

Dr Nicole Freeman

PhD, MMid, BN, Midwife, RN

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Midwifery Researcher

Fiona Kane

Dip Nurs, BSc Nurs, PGDip Midwifery, MSc (Res), PGCertHlthProfEdu

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PhD Candidate

Monique Rose

MMid, BN, Midwife, RN

Project: MyTIME + Sleep

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PhD Candidate

Negash Wakgari Amanta

MSc, BSc

Project: Abortion PREMs/PROMs in Ethiopia

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PhD Candidate

Lesley Pascuzzi

PGC PerinatMentHlth, MSc, BSc

Project: Perinatal Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

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PhD Candidate

Emily Leefhelm

MMid, BN, Midwife, RN

Project: Measuring What Matters After Birth

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PhD Candidate

Jane Reynolds

GradDipMid, PGCertMid, BSc(Hons) Psych, BSc (Nurs)

Project: Advanced rural midwifery and service sustainability

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With Lab acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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