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
2023–present
Senior lecturer of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
2017–2022
Lecturer of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
Education
2021
Western Sydney University, Doctorate of Midwifery
2016
Western Sydney University, Masters of Nursing (Honours)
2014
Flinders University, Graduate Diploma Midwifery
Publications
2023
Psychosocial interprofessional perinatal education: Design and evaluation of an interprofessional learning experience to improve students’ collaboration skills in perinatal mental health, Women and Birth
2023
What women want if they were to have another baby: The Australian Birth Experience Study (BESt) Cross-Sectional National Survey, BMJ Open
2023
A Poetic Inquiry of Traumatic Birth Through Bearing Witness, Qualitative Inquiry
2022
Birth After Caesarean; Your Journey to a Better Birth, Praeclarus Press
2022
From coercion to respectful care: women’s interactions with health care providers when planning a VBAC, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2022
Dehumanized, violated, and powerless: an Australian survey of women's experiences of obstetric violence in the past 5 years, Violence against Women
2020
Women’s experiences of planning a vaginal birth after caesarean in different models of maternity care in Australia, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2019
A narrative analysis of women's experiences of planning a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) in Australia using critical feminist theory, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2018
The journey from pain to power: a meta-ethnography on women’s experiences of vaginal birth after caesarean, Women and Birth
2018
The design, development, and evaluation of a qualitative data collection application for pregnant women, Journal of Nursing Scholarship
2015
Women’s reasons for, and experiences of, choosing a homebirth following a caesarean section, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth