Dr Helen Baston, Alison Brodrick and Dr Tomasina Stacey

Helen, Alison and Tomasina were the lead investigators at our study sites. They worked with research midwives to oversee recruitment and consenting processes. Their work was key to ensuring that unit staff, pregnant women and their birth partners were fully informed about the project and their options for participating (or not) in the study. 

Dr Siân, Beynon-Jones

Siân is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. Her research focuses on the forms of temporality that we live with and how available forms of time are produced through technoscientific practices and their regulation. A key concern in her research is the ways in which time is made and lived in relation to pregnancy and reproduction.

Dr Lyn Brierley-Jones

Lyn worked as our Research Associate, overseeing the day-to-day running of the project. She is a qualitative researcher whose work focuses on how legitimate knowledge in health and medicine is constructed and how this relates to language, culture and practice.

Dr Clare Jackson

Clare is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. Her research uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine talk in both ordinary and institutional settings. In recent years, she has worked on NIHR-funded projects, examining decision-making in real-time communication between service users and healthcare practitioners in two contexts: neurology consultations and midwife-led units.

Dr Victoria Land

Victoria worked as a Research Fellow on the project. She uses conversation analysis to examine decision-making in healthcare interactions with a particular focus on palliative care and childbirth. She has conducted two systematic reviews centred on communication practices. The first reviewed conversation analytic and discourse analytic research pertaining to how practitioners communicate with patients about difficult and uncertain future issues in end-of-life care. The second focused on communication practices that encourage and constrain shared decision-making in health- care encounters yielded by conversation analytic studies.

Dr Paul Chappell

Paul is a quantitative researcher with 15 years of experience in research and data analysis in academic, public and private sectors. He collaborated with us to conduct the quantitative analyses of the survey and coded interactional data. He is currently working with large-scale NHS datasets for the Improvement Analytics Unit (IAU). The IAU is a collaboration between the Health Foundation and NHS England.

Professor Josephine Green

Josephine M Green is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Jo conducts research in Psychosocial Reproductive Health. We adapted her antenatal and postnatal questionnaires from her Great Expectation studies.

• Inga Margaret Jackson (Chair), Lead Governor, York NHS Foundation Trust
• Maria Booker, (then) Programmes Director for Birthrights
• Jeremy Dearling, Lay member
• Professor Jo Green, Emeritus Professor, University of York
• Mr Kim Hinshaw, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Sunderland Royal Hospital
• Marion Laemle, Lay member
• Joyce Marshall, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Huddersfield
• Patrick Titley, Lecturer in Multicamera Production, University of York