Caroline Hollins-Martin
Caroline HollinsMartin

Prof Caroline Hollins-Martin PhD MPhil BSc RGN RM Cert Ed

Professor

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  C.HollinsMartin@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Caroline J Hollins Martin is a Professor of Maternal Health and has a background that has encompassed a career in women’s reproductive health that spans 30 years; the first 11 of these were spent as a clinical midwife in Ayrshire (Scotland) and 24 teaching and researching women’s reproductive health within universities. Caroline is an NMC Registered Midwife and Lecturer/Practice Educator. She is also a graduate and post graduate in psychology and a Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS). Caroline holds copywrite for the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R), which is available free of charge at: https://www.bss-r.co.uk OR by emailing c.hollinsmartin@napier.ac.uk
The BSS-R is recommended as the key global clinical measure of birth satisfaction by the ICHOM Standard Set for Pregnancy And Childbirth: www.ichom.org/medical-conditions/pregnancy-and-childbirth/
If you would like to work with Caroline's team on a language specific translation and validation of a country specific BSS-R, please contact her.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • I chaired the steering group that directed management of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Greater Manchester. Co-project between New Step for African Community (NESTAC), NHS clinics, primary care, community services, midwives, and the University of Salf
  • I represent the role of midwife for the Turners Syndrome Support Society. This role has involved presenting invited papers, chairing sessions and discussion groups with women with Turner’s syndrome and their families at their annual meeting in Chorley eac

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • I organised and chaired 9 study days for the workforce confederation in conjunction with the Department of Health Science at the University of York
  • I was a chair at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) 30th Triennial Congress (Prague Congress Centre).

 

Editorial Activity

  • Journal Editorial Advisory Board : Scientific Basis of Healthcare: Angina. Science Publishers: Enfield UK.
  • Associate editor for the maternal health section of Nurse Education and Practice (NEP).
  • Journal Editorial Advisory Board : Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications. Science Publishers: Enfield UK.
  • Editor: Special Edition: innovative developments and debates for midwifery education in practice. Nurse Education in Practice. 12(5) 239-300.
  • Editor: Special edition: women’s health and maternity care issues. Midwifery Matters. Issue no. 120.
  • Editor: Special edition: women’s health and maternity care issues. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing. Issue no. 952.
  • Journal Editorial Advisory Board : Scientific Basis of Healthcare: AIDS and Pregnancy. Science Publishers: Enfield UK.

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Find a PhD Postgraduate Award
  • Prof Dianne Morrison-Beedy was a Fullbright scholar from the US who travelled to work with me in the School of Health and Social Care at ENU for 6 months.
  • Working on an NIHR project in Malawi, which looks at effective prevention and treatment of preterm birth.
  • Class prize for top academic student on my RGN nursing programme

 

Media Activity

  • BBC TV show at media city in Salford. I presented for 5 minutes in a documentary - “How I became a midwife”:Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOwlqqh1WCw

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • I attained status as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Educationn Academy (HEA)

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Candidate (External) Tanya J Connell - University of Sydney: The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery
  • Candidate (External) Robert Laing - Murdoch University (West Australia)
  • Candidate (External) Siti Roshaidai Binti Mohd Arifin - University of Stirling
  • Candidate (External) Geraldine Butcher - The University of the West of Scotland
  • Candidate (External) Sandra Healy - University of Limerick
  • Candidate (External) Amanda Carter - Griffith University (Perth Australia)
  • Candidate (External) Felicia Kalu - University College Dublin
  • Candidate (External) Louise Dawson - University of Salford

 

Spin-outs and Licences

  • The Birth Satisfaction Scale Revised (BSS-R), which is a psychometric scale I developed has been adopted by the International Consortium of Health Outcome Measures as the measure of choice for measuring women's satisfaction with their childbirth experience
  • I was invited to write a chapter for a new edition of a seminal midwifery textbook

 

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Triumph over the barricades and put the evidence into practice.

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2008)
Triumph over the barricades and put the evidence into practice. British Journal of Midwifery. 16, 76-81. doi:10.12968/bjom.2008.16.2.28334. ISSN 0969-4900
In some instances midwives find it difficult to implement research into practice (Albers, 2001). For example, evidence informs of the benefits of providing continuous support ...

Obedience: would you do as I say?

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2007)
Obedience: would you do as I say?. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 17, 7-13
Most people will have observed the often impressive synchrony of the behaviour of fish in a school or birds in a flock. The fact that the behaviour of a fish is so well matche...

How can we improve choice provision for childbearing women?

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2007)
How can we improve choice provision for childbearing women?. British Journal of Midwifery. 15, 480-484. doi:10.12968/bjom.2007.15.8.24387. ISSN 0969-4900
Obedience research has shown that under situational pressures and within hierarchical relationships, people have a propensity towards submission to authority (Milgram, 1974). ...

Protocols, policy directives and choice provision: UK midwives' views

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., & Bull, P. (2007)
Protocols, policy directives and choice provision: UK midwives' views. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 22, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/09526860910927952
Purpose – within maternity hospitals midwives are expected to follow the protocol-driven culture and orders issued by senior staff. Simultaneously, midwives are expected to fo...

Denial: as midwives can we accept the truth?

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2007)
Denial: as midwives can we accept the truth?. Midwifery matters / Association of Radical Midwives. ISSN 0961-1479

How to evidence-base clinical practice?

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2006)
How to evidence-base clinical practice?. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, 9, eii-eiii. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cein.2007.03.001

What features of the maternity unit promote obedient behaviour from midwives?

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., & Bull, P. (2006)
What features of the maternity unit promote obedient behaviour from midwives?. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, 9, e221-e231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cein.2006.05.002
The aim of this paper was to present a comprehensive picture of characteristics within a maternity hospital which promote obedient behaviour from midwives. The overall objecti...

Women's health and maternity care issues.

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2006)
Women's health and maternity care issues. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, 9(S2), e135-e242
Special Issue edited by Caroline Hollins-Martin.

A difficult choice.

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2006)
A difficult choice. AIMS journal. 19. ISSN 1357-9657
Caroline Hollins Martin explores the difficulties that midwives face with providing choice and control to childbearing women.

Are you as obedient as me?

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2006)
Are you as obedient as me?. Midwifery matters / Association of Radical Midwives. , 11-14. ISSN 0961-1479

Current Post Grad projects

Previous Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • PhD - Elaine Beaumont - University of Salford
  • Prof Doc – Dora Christine Howes - Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Prof Doc – Catriona Khamisha. Being on Track - Glasgow Caledonian University
  • PhD – Michael Fleming - The University of the West of Scotland