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Before joining Buckinghamshire New University in 2021, I worked most recently at Buckinghamshire Health Care Trust as a Practice Development Midwife, focusing on education in continuing professional development. Prior to that I spent over a decade working as clinical Midwife in all areas of maternity care, including Risk Management, Infant Feeding and most predominantly in Labour Ward and Birth Centres. 

I studied for my BSc (Hons) in Midwifery in 2005-2008 at Kingston and St Georges University Hospital. My PgCert in Medical Education at the University of Buckingham in 2020-2021 and my MA in Education at Buckinghamshire New University in 2022-2024. 

My specialist area of interest/research is decolonising the Midwifery curriculum. This was the focus of my Masters research. As a Midwifery Lecturer, decolonising the curriculum is deeply important to me because it directly addresses the persistent awarding gap in higher education and the stark inequalities in health outcomes experienced by women, birthing people and newborns from global ethnic majority backgrounds. By embedding diverse perspectives, histories and knowledge systems into our teaching, we empower future midwives to provide equitable, respectful and effective care. This transformation is essential to break down barriers in education and in health care, to ensure that all families accessing maternity care and all students studying midwifery, regardless of ethnicity, receive the education and quality of maternity care they deserve. 

I am a member of the NMC as a Registered Midwife and the Royal College of Midwives. I also have Fellowship status with Advanced Higher Education. I am also a Resuscitation Council UK certified Instructor for Newborn Life Support. 

In 2019 I worked with Oxford Academic Health Science Network on a project to improve cerebral palsy rates in preterm infants. It was the first ever perinatal quality improvement programme to be delivered at scale across the whole of the country, bringing together midwives, obstetricians and neonatologists. This project won a HSJ Patient Safety Award. I am very proud to have been part of something that had provoke change and improved outcomes for so many families. 

My career highlight has still got to be by far, the immense privilege that it is to welcome new life into the world and watch new families being made. However, close second is the joy I feel as I watch students’ progress through the programme to qualification as a Midwife!

Latest Publications: 

Stringer, C. (2023) An integrative review of the impact of fidelity on simulation-based learning in Midwifery education. MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, 33(4), pp.321-325

Amoateng, G. Mosoeunyane, M. Stringer, C.  (2023) Decolonising Nursing and Midwifery: Our Journey So Far. Reimaging Higher Education: Journeys of Decolonising Conference: De Montfort University

Stringer, C. (2024) How did you come to be a Midwife Lecturer? MIDIRS Monthly. 

Stringer, C. (2024) Reflective narrative of a practice development Midwife. The Practising Midwife, 27(3), pp. 35-38

Stringer, C. (2024) Global Ethnic Majority Student Midwives Experience of a Decolonised Curriculum: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. RAISE Annual Conference: Equity in Attainment and Student Success. 

Avery, C., Stringer, C., Nash, H., Kippax, A., Melia, C., & Webb, L. (2025). Safeguarding mothers and babies. British Journal of Midwifery, 33(00), pp.2-3.