Yvonne Kuipers, PhD
Edinburgh Napier University
Yvonne Kuipers is a Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and has a background that has encompassed a career in women’s reproductive health that spans over 20 years. She has been an independent midwife in the Netherlands, and teaching and researching women’s reproductive health within universities in the Netherlands, Belgium and Scotland. Yvonne is a honorary professor at the University of Antwerp.
Yvonne completed her PhD in 2016 at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. During the PhD she developed and tested an interactive tailored web-based intervention to prevent and reduce antenatal maternal distress. The intervention was effective and was later successfully adapted for Flanders, Belgium. Yvonne her research domains include woman-centred care, including midwifery models of (continuity) of care and women's emotional wellbeing throughout the transition period to motherhood. She has been awarded for the ISeeYou project, a woman-centred continuity of carer midwifery student project.
Yvonne Kuipers is a strong advocate for improving the emotional wellbeing of women during the transition to parenthood and the development of healthy and resilient families through research, publications, education and presenting at conferences.
