Professor of midwifery at AUT university Auckland, NZ Interests: Continuity of midwifery care: sustainability, experience and effect Spirituality and childbirth (multiple perspectives) Rural midwifery care provision and experience Perinatal Psycho emotional and spiritual well-being (including perinatal mental health) Existential and philosophical appreciation of childbirth in 21st century context Methodologies: Hermeneutic Phenomenology Action research esp. co operative inquiry and appreciative inquiry Grounded theory Qualitative descriptive Qualitative meta synthesis