Rate My Professor Gail Anderson

Gail Anderson serves as Senior Lecturer (Education) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast, within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences. She holds professional qualifications including PGCHE, MSc, BSc, RM, and RN. Her career at the university includes roles such as Midwifery Teaching Fellow in 2003 and Lecturer (Education) in 2015, with previous responsibilities as Lead Midwife Education. Anderson's academic interests center on midwifery education, encompassing simulation-based training, interprofessional education, student resilience, perinatal mental health, public health roles for midwives, and integration of sustainable development goals into curricula. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Well-being), 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Equality), and 13 (Climate Action) through her research and teaching.

Anderson teaches continuing professional development modules including Theory and Practice of Fertility Control and Reproductive Sexual Health, and Breast and Cervical Screening for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors. Her peer-reviewed publications include 'Co-design and evaluation of an audio podcast about sustainable development goals for undergraduate nursing and midwifery students' (2024, BMC Medical Education), 'Simulation in midwifery: the role of motivation in designing an undergraduate experience' (2024, British Journal of Midwifery), 'Solihull Approach training in undergraduate midwifery education: a pilot study' (2024, British Journal of Midwifery), 'Using therapeutic art practice to address the continuing escalation of perinatal mental ill health' (2025, British Journal of Midwifery), 'The weight of Obesity: Analysis of Weigh to a Healthy Pregnancy and the Role of the Midwife in Public Health' (2020), 'Confidentiality: the perspective of the new student midwife' (2020), 'When colour really matters: addressing inequalities in maternity care' (2020), and 'A concept analysis of normal birth' (2003). In 2018, she was a runner-up, with colleagues Clare Hughes and Dorothy Patterson, in the Royal College of Midwives Annual Midwifery Awards for Excellence in Education. Anderson participates in national initiatives such as the Development of training package for student midwives undertaking Newborn Blood Spot Screening (2024), Review of Standards for Nurse and Midwife Education Providers Cervical Screening Sample Taking Task and Finish Group (2024), and Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Framework Task and Finish Group (2023-2024). She featured in press coverage of a 2021 message from HRH The Princess Royal to midwifery students.