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Edwin van Teijlingen, MA, MEd, PhD, FHEA, MPHE

• Country: United Kingdom

Biography:

Edwin van Teijlingen is a medical sociologist with an interest in mixed-methods research.  He has published widely in the field of midwifery and maternity care. He has also published on various aspects of research methods in a format easily accessible to a lay audience, including a paper on research ethics published in a midwifery journal.

He has conducted cross-cultural research into the organisation of maternity care, whilst his most recent overseas’ research is largely based in South Asia.  He is professor at Bournemouth University, England and Visiting Professor at two universities in Nepal.

His edited books include: Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Midwifery Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe, New York: Routledge, 2001 and Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth: Comparative Perspectives, New York: Nova Science, 2004