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Georgia Clancy

ESRC IAA Postdoctoral Innovation Fellow
Email: Georgia dot Clancy at warwick dot ac dot uk

@_GClancy

Georgia Clancy holds an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Postdoctoral Innovation Fellowship in the Department of Sociology.

During this fellowship she will be working with key stakeholders in maternity care to create impact and engage non-academic audiences with her doctoral research which explored women’s childbirth preferences, decisions and outcomes in England today.

Her interdisciplinary doctoral research, which was also undertaken at the University of Warwick, took a mixed-methods approach to considering different knowledge systems and approaches to risk in maternity care, neoliberal policymaking and the concept and reality of ‘choice’ in healthcare.

Thesis: Better Births? An Exploration of Women's Childbirth Preferences, Decisions, and Outcomes in EnglandLink opens in a new window

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Journal articles:

Clancy, G. (2022) 'Sharing is Caring - and that goes for maternity research too! Reflections on a public engagement event and why we need more of this'Link opens in a new window AIMS Journal 34 (1)

Clancy, G., Boardman, F. and Rees, S. (2022) ‘Exploring Trust in (Bio)medical and Experiential Knowledge of Birth: The Perspectives of Pregnant Women, New Mothers and Maternity Care ProvidersLink opens in a new window’ Midwifery 107

Clancy, G. (2021) ‘Putting Better Births' Personalised Care into Practice: Comments on Progress and Recent Guidance of the Better Births RecommendationLink opens in a new window’ AIMS Journal 33 (3): 35-37

Public Engagement:

Watch online: Sharing Childbirth Experiences: Choices, Challenges and ConversationLink opens in a new window (ESRC Festival of Social Science 2021)

The Choices and Challenges of ChildbirthLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick Knowledge Centre 2021)

Book reviews:

Clancy, G. (2021) ‘Making Informed Decisions on Childbirth: One Scientist's International Perspective by Sofie VantiersLink opens in a new window’ AIMS Journal 33 (3): 41-42

Blogs:

Clancy, G. (2021) ‘The Threat of Social ServicesLink opens in a new window’ Association of Radical Midwives

Clancy, G. (2020) ‘The Role of the 'Safe Maverick' in NHS Maternity ServicesLink opens in a new window' The Sociological Review Blog

Conferences:

Clancy, G. ‘Problematising ‘Choice’ in NHS Maternity Care Policy and Practice’. BSA Medical Sociology Study Group. Online. September 2021.

Clancy, G. ‘Neoliberalism and the Better Births Maternity Care Policy’. Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) 2021 Annual Conference: The Politics of Reproduction, University of Brighton. Online. 15-17 September 2021.

Clancy, G. ‘Women’s Childbirth Choices and Barriers to Choice Actualisation’. Maternity & Midwifery Festival Wales & South West. Cardiff, UK and online. 15 September 2021.

Clancy, G. ‘Negotiating ‘risky’ childbirth: professional perspectives from within and without the NHS’. BSA Risk & Society Study Group 2019 Conference. London, UK. 9-10 December 2019.