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.
  • Journal Editorial Advisory Board : Scientific Basis of Healthcare: AIDS and Pregnancy. 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.

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Find a PhD Postgraduate Award
  • Working on an NIHR project in Malawi, which looks at effective prevention and treatment of preterm birth.
  • 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.
  • 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) Amanda Carter - Griffith University (Perth Australia)
  • Candidate (External) Geraldine Butcher - The University of the West of Scotland
  • Candidate (External) Sandra Healy - University of Limerick
  • 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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Could introducing vacuum delivery into the education curriculum of community midwives in Yemen improve maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity outcomes?

Journal Article
Kizler, R., & Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012)
Could introducing vacuum delivery into the education curriculum of community midwives in Yemen improve maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity outcomes?. Nurse Education in Practice, 13, 73-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2012.10.008
At present in Yemen the neonatal mortality rate stands at 12%. A contributing factor is that when abnormalities arise during labour in rural areas, there is an absence of trai...

Special Edition: Innovative developments and debates for midwifery education in practice

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012)
Special Edition: Innovative developments and debates for midwifery education in practice. Nurse Education in Practice, 12(5), 239-300
Caroiline Hollins-Martin was guest editor of the special issue of Nurse Education in Practice titled "Innovative Developments and Debates for Midwifery Education in Practice".

Exploring the consequences of how Scotland interprets the UK misuse of drugs act 1971

Journal Article
McPhee, I., Hollins Martin, C. J., Martin, C. R., & Sneider, A. (2012)
Exploring the consequences of how Scotland interprets the UK misuse of drugs act 1971. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 12, 146-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/17459261211263433
Purpose: this paper aims to critically explore the consequences of how Scotland interprets the UK Misuse of Drugs Act (1971). Scotland prosecutes 24 per cent of people found i...

Nurses' understandings of suitable footwear for older people

Journal Article
Borland, A., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Locke, J. (2012)
Nurses' understandings of suitable footwear for older people. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 26, 653-665. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-05-2012-0050
Purpose – the purpose of this paper is to gain insight into nurses’ understandings of what constitutes suitable footwear for older people in care homes. Design/methodology/app...

Application of the team objective structured clinical encounter (TOSCE) for continuing professional development amongst postgraduate health professionals.

Journal Article
Gordon, M., Uppal, E., Holt, K., Lythgoe, J., Mitchell, A., & Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012)
Application of the team objective structured clinical encounter (TOSCE) for continuing professional development amongst postgraduate health professionals. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 27, 191-193. https://doi.org/10.3109/13561820.2012.725232
Educators in healthcare face significant challenges trying to improve interprofessional teamworking skills, with a lack of clarity on how to teach and evaluate such skills. Pr...

Concurrent analysis: validation of the domains within the birth satisfaction scale

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2012)
Concurrent analysis: validation of the domains within the birth satisfaction scale. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 30, 247-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2012.710833
Background and aim: measuring women’s satisfaction with their birth experience has been problematic. Recently, an attempt has been made to capture birth satisfaction’s general...

The importance of education in preparing women for childbirth.

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012)
The importance of education in preparing women for childbirth. Nurse Education in Practice, 12(5), 240-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2012.05.012
This special edition offers unique insight into concepts of education within midwifery practice. One of the aims of delivering midwifery education is to advance the evidence-b...

A midwives guide to Turner Syndrome

Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., & Smythe, A. (2012)
A midwives guide to Turner Syndrome. British Journal of Midwifery, 20, 540-543
Turner syndrome (TS) is a cross-cultural genetic disorder that affects around 1 in 2500 women and is predominately associated with short stature and infertility. Classic TS oc...

Conformity and obedience among midwives.

Book
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012)
Conformity and obedience among midwives. In C. R. Martin (Ed.), Perinatal Mental Health: a clinical guide, 249-261. M & K Updates
The literature on obedience emphasises that legitimate authority is a powerful and compelling force. This is particularly evident in Milgram’s experiments (1963, 1974) in whic...

Personality disorder and mental health in the perinatal period.

Book
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012)
Personality disorder and mental health in the perinatal period. In C. R. Martin (Ed.), Perinatal Mental Health: a clinical guide, 43-57. M & K Update
The act of giving birth has the capacity to precipitate extreme emotional reactions in some women, with parturition shown to be a risk factor for developing psychiatric illnes...

Current Post Grad projects

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Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

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