Rate My Professor Belinda Lovell

Dr Belinda Lovell is a Lecturer in Midwifery in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health, at Adelaide University. She coordinates key undergraduate courses such as Evidence Based Midwifery (MIDW 1101) and Midwifery Project (MIDW 3000), delivering tutorials across multiple campuses including Adelaide City, Whyalla, and online. Her research expertise encompasses parenting education for women experiencing incarceration, the specific parenting education needs of Aboriginal women in prison, trauma-informed educational approaches, bladder scanning practices in maternity care, postpartum urinary retention, and urinary tract infections during maternity care. Lovell is eligible to supervise higher degree by research students at the Masters and PhD levels as a co-supervisor. She currently co-supervises doctoral candidates on projects including "Strengthening Interprofessional Collaborative Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy: an Educational Intervention for Healthcare Professionals" and "Student-led breastfeeding education clinic: An innovative approach to support breastfeeding as a public health priority".

Lovell's publications reflect her contributions to midwifery and health justice. Notable recent works include "Parenting Education for Women Experiencing Incarceration: Views of Prison Staff" (Lovell et al., 2024, Women and Criminal Justice), "Process Evaluation of a Prison Parenting Education Program for Women" (Lovell et al., 2023, Social Sciences), "The parenting education needs of Aboriginal women experiencing incarceration" (Lovell et al., 2023, Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet), and "The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education" (Lovell et al., 2022, Health & Justice). Additional significant publications cover "The parenting education needs of women experiencing incarceration in South Australia: proposal for a mixed methods study" (Lovell et al., 2020, JMIR Research Protocols), "Assessing the inter-rater reliability of (Uscan) bladder scanner during pregnancy and following childbirth" (Steen, Lovell, & Esterman, 2019, Evidence-based Midwifery), "Learning from the Outcomes of Existing Prison Parenting Education Programs for Women Experiencing Incarceration: A Scoping Review" (Lovell et al., 2019, Journal of Prison Education and Reentry), "Bladder scanning in maternity care: a scoping review" (Lovell, Steen, & Esterman, 2017, Evidence Based Midwifery), and "A critical literature review of the incidence of postpartum urinary retention" (Lovell & Steen, 2016, Evidence Based Midwifery). These peer-reviewed articles advance evidence-based practices in midwifery and support for vulnerable populations.