We create and contribute to a network of mutually beneficial local, national and global connections, working collaboratively towards a healthier world for all.
Our engagement strategies foster a service orientation and embrace diverse perspectives and world views. We are inclusive, demonstrating cultural competence and a commitment to social justice, global health and sustainable futures.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development
The UTS World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development forms part of an international collaborative network that supports and undertakes projects in support of WHO's program at national, regional and international levels. It is one of only two nursing and midwifery 'institutions of excellence' in Australia formally recognised by WHO as part of its global network of collaborating centres in nursing and midwifery.
Nursing
UTS staff collaborate with external industry partners, consumers and consumer advocates in the generation and translation of research aimed at producing positive outcomes for patients and healthcare systems and services. Community engagement also underpins our curricula with industry partners participating both in teaching and curriculum review.
By engaging with industry and community groups, we are relevant to them, supportive of them, and able to identify areas for change. We provide the mechanisms to examine and critique services, to identify service gaps and areas of improvement. We are key stakeholders in promoting inter-professional practice. We engage with organisations in an inter-professional and multidisciplinary way, and we advocate for vulnerable populations and groups.
Professor Margaret Fry Professor of Research and Practice Development, Northern Sydney Local Health District
Midwifery
Academic staff are actively involved in the profession and many continue to work clinically as midwives. All our midwifery academics are active members of the Australian College of Midwives, holding places on the Scientific Review and Advisory Committee and the Professional Development Committee. We regularly speak at midwifery conferences both in Australia and overseas.
We have close ties and networks with midwifery educators across all of the hospitals that our students attend for clinical placements. We are in constant communication about our students and what they need. Lectures and practical work are highly integrated.
In the discipline of Midwifery at UTS, we are embedded in a range of local, national and international research and industry networks that inform scholarly teaching and learning at UTS and the profession more broadly. Our work with responsible innovation is having a global impact on the way new technologies are being co-designed in maternity care, bringing a woman centred approach to the table. This work is transdisciplinary, involving maternity care consumers, midwives, obstetricians, engineers, exercise physiologists, business management experts and ethicists from UTS, Australian partner universities and global industry partners.
Dr Deborah Fox Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator Midwifery
