Dr. Hazel Keedle is a Senior Lecturer of Midwifery at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University. She has over two decades of experience as a clinician in nursing and midwifery, educator, and researcher. Her research interests are vaginal birth after caesarean, birth trauma, and maternity experiences, which she explores primarily using feminist mixed methodologies.
Dr. Keedle's work is recognised nationally and internationally. She has made many invited conference and seminar presentations, and her research has been widely published in academic journals and books. She is the author of the book "Birth after Caesarean: Your Journey to a Better Birth," which is based on her PhD findings. Dr. Keedle is also the lead researcher on Australia's largest maternity experiences survey, The Birth Experience Study and lead for the Birth Experience Study - International Collaboration.
Dr Keedle is passionate about improving the experiences of women during childbirth. She is committed to using her research to advocate for women's rights and to ensure that all women have access to respectful, supportive maternity care.
Experience
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2023–presentSenior lecturer of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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2017–2022Lecturer of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
Education
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2021Western Sydney University, Doctorate of Midwifery
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2016Western Sydney University, Masters of Nursing (Honours)
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2014Flinders University, Graduate Diploma Midwifery
Publications
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2023Psychosocial interprofessional perinatal education: Design and evaluation of an interprofessional learning experience to improve students’ collaboration skills in perinatal mental health, Women and Birth
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2023What women want if they were to have another baby: The Australian Birth Experience Study (BESt) Cross-Sectional National Survey, BMJ Open
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2023A Poetic Inquiry of Traumatic Birth Through Bearing Witness, Qualitative Inquiry
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2022Birth After Caesarean; Your Journey to a Better Birth, Praeclarus Press
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2022From coercion to respectful care: women’s interactions with health care providers when planning a VBAC, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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2022Dehumanized, violated, and powerless: an Australian survey of women's experiences of obstetric violence in the past 5 years, Violence against Women
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2020Women’s experiences of planning a vaginal birth after caesarean in different models of maternity care in Australia, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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2019A narrative analysis of women's experiences of planning a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) in Australia using critical feminist theory, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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2018The journey from pain to power: a meta-ethnography on women’s experiences of vaginal birth after caesarean, Women and Birth
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2018The design, development, and evaluation of a qualitative data collection application for pregnant women, Journal of Nursing Scholarship
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2015Women’s reasons for, and experiences of, choosing a homebirth following a caesarean section, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Professional Memberships
- Australian College of Midwives
- NSW, Australia
- @HazelKeedle
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
