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Magdalena Ohaja

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Magdalena Ohaja

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6699-4472

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Biography

Magdalena is a lecturer in Midwifery at NUI Galway. She is a qualitative researcher. Her PhD thesis explored the concept of safe motherhood as experienced and understood by women, midwives and traditional birth attendants as well as the social structures that shape their experiences and understanding in southeast Nigeria. The study employed hermeneutic phenomenological approach guided by poststructural feminism.In her MSc. dissertation, she explored support for learning in the clinical area for post registration student midwives.

Research Interests

Women's and maternal health, safe motherhood, normal labour and childbirth, Informal (traditional) birth attendants, cultural birth practices, and international policies around pregnancy and birth.Midwifery education, learning support for midwifery student, clinical learning environment.Methodologies - Qualitative research - hermeneutics, phenomenology, feminisms, discourse analysis and ethnography.

Teaching Interests

Magdalena teaches across undergraduate, and higher diploma midwifery programmes in the classroom and skills lab settings. She is passionate about all aspects of midwifery, with particular interest in normal midwifery, ethnic minority women, and obstetric emergencies. She uses a variety of teaching methods.

Education/Academic qualification

B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD

External positions

School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin

2 Jan 2008 → 30 Sept 2019

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  6. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  7. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  8. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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