Rate My Professor Jane Warland

Jane Warland served as Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Curtin University from April 2021 to July 2023, holding a joint appointment as Chair with King Edward Memorial Hospital. She is a registered midwife with a PhD in Medicine (Health Sciences) from the University of Adelaide awarded in 2007 and a Graduate Certificate in Education (University Teaching) from the University of South Australia in 2009. During her time at Curtin, Warland contributed to leadership as Co-Domain Lead for Maternity, Child and Family Health in the Growing Well program within the Faculty of Health Sciences enAble Institute from 2021 to 2023. She represented Curtin University on the Western Australia Midwifery Workforce Advisory Committee and the Trans-Tasman Midwifery Educators Consortium in the same period. Her academic career also encompasses prior teaching and research roles at the University of South Australia, where she contributed to undergraduate nursing and midwifery programs.

Warland's research specializations encompass midwifery practice, stillbirth prevention, fetal movement monitoring, maternal sleep position during late pregnancy, scope of practice for midwives in acute early pregnancy care, and water immersion for labor and birth. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including the highly cited 'Maternal sleep during pregnancy and poor fetal outcomes: a scoping review of the literature with meta-analysis' in Sleep Medicine Reviews (2018, 257 citations), 'Bearing witness: midwives experiences of witnessing traumatic birth' in Midwifery (2013, 188 citations), 'An international internet survey of the experiences of 1,714 mothers with a late stillbirth: the STARS cohort study' in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2015, 115 citations), 'Parenting paradox: parenting after infant loss' in Midwifery (2011, 108 citations), and 'Understanding stillbirth stigma: A scoping literature review' in Women and Birth (2020, 98 citations). More recent contributions include 'Giving sleep position advice in pregnancy: Will we make women anxious?' in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2022) and 'Midwives' and registered nurses' role and scope of practice in acute early pregnancy care' in JBI Evidence Synthesis (2024). Her scholarship has advanced knowledge on stillbirth risk factors and maternity care, evidenced by over 2,100 citations across 125 publications.