Rate My Professor Julie Fleet

Dr Julie Fleet is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health, at Adelaide University. With extensive experience in midwifery education, she previously served as Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Midwifery at the University of South Australia. Fleet is an active member of the Australian College of Midwives and the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre. As an experienced clinical researcher specialising in women's health and midwifery care, her research and teaching interests include maternal and neonatal health, normal birth and breastfeeding, experiential learning, and clinical education. She is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students.

Fleet has authored or co-authored over 60 publications, contributing significantly to the field of midwifery. Recent key publications include "Midwifery Communication for Childbirth: A Practical Approach" (2026, Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, with Whitburn, Newnham, & Cyna), "Antenatal education incorporating complementary medicine techniques for labour and birth to reduce the rates of epidural in primiparous women: A randomised control trial" (2024, Midwifery, with Adelson, McKellar, & Steen), "The barometer of moral distress in midwifery: A pilot study" (2024, Women and Birth, with Foster, McKellar, Creedy, & Sweet), "Digital transformation of antenatal education: A descriptive exploratory study of women's experiences of online antenatal education" (2024, Women and Birth, with Whitworth & Donnellan-Fernandez), and "Women’s experiences of online antenatal education: An integrative literature review" (2024, Journal of Advanced Nursing, with Whitworth & Donnellan-Fernandez). Earlier influential works encompass "Exploring moral distress in Australian midwifery practice" (2022, Women and Birth, with Foster, McKellar, & Sweet; cited 28 times), "Moral distress in midwifery practice: A concept analysis" (2022, Nursing Ethics, with Foster, McKellar, & Sweet), and a randomised controlled trial "A comparison of fentanyl with pethidine for pain relief during childbirth" (2015, BJOG, with Jones & Belan; cited over 40 times). Her research has evaluated midwifery-led care models, intranasal fentanyl for labour analgesia, moral distress among midwives, antenatal education innovations, regional multisite midwifery implementation in South Australia, and the experiences of women with female genital mutilation/cutting and international midwifery students. Through these efforts, Fleet advances evidence-based practices and education in midwifery.