Email: | k.buchanan@ecu.edu.au |
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Campus: | Joondalup |
ORCID iD: | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8552-7412 |
Dr Kate Buchanan is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Midwifery at the ECU School of Nursing and Midwifery. She also holds an honorary Research Consultant position with the South Metropolitan maternity Health Service.
Kate is a registered midwife with over 20 years of clinical experience in tertiary, rural midwifery and homebirth support settings. Kate has also worked for over six years in universities as a Midwifery Lecturer.
Kate’s research area is midwifery philosophy, midwifery theory and midwifery ethics, and the midwifery role in debriefing post birth, respectful and culturally safe care. Kate is a qualitative researcher, with experience in feminist research, action research and implementation science.