Octavia Wiseman
Research Assistant
Institute for Health and Human Development
University of East London
United Kingdom
Biography
Octavia trained as a midwife after a career as a literary agent. She completed a Masters in Clinical Research at King’s College London (NIHR Fellow) in 2015 and works as a Research Assistant on the NIHR-funded REACH Pregnancy Programme at City, University of London. In 2016 Octavia was seconded to the University of East London where she continues to work on the REACH trial of group antenatal care ('Pregnancy Circles'). At City, Octavia is co-module lead for the Level 7 module 'Innovations in maternity: Facilitating group antenatal care' and she has lectured at King's College London and City on topics such as homebirth, migrant women and maternity care and antenatal education. Octavia also works part-time as a community midwife and antenatal educator at King’s College Hospital where she wrote the Trust Homebirth guidelines. She is an RCM Learning Rep and runs a regular networking event promoting midwifery research and practice innovation at King's College Hospital.
Research Interest
Midwifery Migrant women access to maternity care Group antenatal care Perineal trauma Homebirth
Publications
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Wiseman O (2017) Infection and wound breakdown associated with second degree perineal tears in childbirth: an exploratory mixed methods study (June, Toronto) International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Conference.
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Wiseman O, Da Motta G, McCourt C, Rayment J, Harden A (2016) Report on the feasibility of implementing Pregnancy Circles test groups (WP2 Feasibility study phase 1). REACH Pregnancy Programme team.
