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Woman UP! Podcast Episode 4 - Laura Godfrey-Isaacs
This instalment features Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Artist, Midwife and creator of the Maternal Journal, an award winning project exploring the benefits of creative journalling within the realm of maternity care.
‘Many times, I’d sit in a lecture and I’d think there were so many amazing artists making work about this. Why aren’t we looking at this? Why aren’t we referencing this? And realising that I had these things in my head and many others didn’t obviously because I’d had an arts background!’
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 2019
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs is an artist, midwife and birth activist. She spent over twenty years in the arts, as a visual arts, academic and creative producer. In 2016 she graduated as a midwife from King’s College London, and now works as a community midwife at King’s College Hospital, London.
She aspires to bring her knowledge and experience in the arts and the cultural industries, together with midwifery, to bring fresh interdisciplinary perspectives to inform education, practice, policy and research.
She regularly presents at conferences, and creates interdisciplinary projects and campaigns that combine midwifery, art & culture. She is currently Research Associate with The Digital Institute for Early Parenthood, Ambassador for Procreate Project, co-lead of the Health policy committee at The Women’s Equality Party, Board Advisor of The International Forum for Wellbeing in Pregnancy, and member of the Thought Leadership Group at the NMC reviewing midwifery education standards.
Blog: https://www.all4maternity.com/caring/blog/birth-art-culture/
Twitter: @godfrey_isaacs
To view a subtitled version please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7HufYHOAUI
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