Rate My Professor Sharon Rance

Sharon Rance is a lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University, part of the College of Medicine and Public Health. She holds a Bachelor of Midwifery (BMid) and a Master of Clinical Education (MClinEd). Previously affiliated with Flinders University from January 2009 to October 2015 as a lecturer, she continues in a casual academic capacity. At the University of South Australia, she served as Lecturer in Midwifery and Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Midwifery program. Her research interests include midwifery education, midwifery teaching skills, pregnancy complications, high risk pregnancy, prenatal care, pregnancy peer education, obstetric delivery, teaching skills, and obstetrics.

Sharon Rance has six publications listed on ResearchGate, with a total of 8 citations. Key works include 'Developing clinical teaching capacities of midwifery students' (2016, Women and Birth), which used design-based research to evaluate a peer education intervention between first- and third-year midwifery students. Focus groups with 30 students yielded themes of co-creating a culture for learning, reciprocal teaching and learning, and developing clinical teaching capacities. Students demonstrated understanding of clinical teaching responsibilities, linking workplace experiences to curriculum learning despite limited formal activities. Other publications are 'Beyond safe practice - developing comprehensive professional skills in midwifery students' (2019), 'Clinical teaching skills for midwives' (2017), 'Actions: Louder than words' (2017), 'Advice to students' (2015), and 'My birth from my Mother's perspective' (2015). She contributed to the validation of the Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool (AMSAT). Sharon Rance was part of teams awarded in the 2024 Unstoppable Awards Teaching & Learning Stream at UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences, one with Dr Angela Brown and Kassie Daw, another with Dr Julie Fleet, Brennan Foot, and Charlotte Rose. She is a trained reviewer for summative peer review of teaching at UniSA.