Loretta Musgrave

Senior Lecturer

Discipline of Midwifery

BIO

Loretta is a registered midwife and nurse with 28 years of clinical/education experience. Loretta is a Senior Lecturer, Co-Director for the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Research Collective (School of Nursing and Midwifery, and an active member in the Collaborative for Midwifery, Child and Family Health at UTS. Loretta completed her PhD at The University of Sydney (Faculty of Medicine). Her thesis generated evidence to inform future development and utilisation of pregnancy planning and pregnancy-specific mobile phone applications. Central to this body of work is the identification of the barriers and facilitators of maternal health behaviours that impact poor outcomes for mothers and babies and preferences for the provision of information in pregnancy for ethnically and culturally diverse groups of women.

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Lecturer in Midwifery
    University of Technology Sydney, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Sydney, Australia2019 - present
  • Regulatory performance assessor (RN/RM)
    Nursing and Midwifery Council NSW, Australia2018 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Secondment - NSW Office for Preventative Health (Get Healthy in Pregnancy app content specialist)
    NSW Office for Preventative Health, Australia2018 - 2019

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Substantive Position - Senior Midwife Educator (Midwife Educator Grade 3)
    Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia2018 - 2019

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Nursing
    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1993 - 1995
  • Graduate Diploma in Midwifery
    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1998 - 1999
  • Master in Education (Adult Education)
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia2011 - 2013
  • Diploma of Project Management
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia2014 - 2014
  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Technology, Australia

CERTIFICATIONS

  • 12 Weeks to Publication
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia2020 - present
  • Biomedical Writing Workshop
    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia2018 - present
  • Cochrane Methodology: Writing a systematic review
    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia2017 - present
  • Master in Education (Adult Education)
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia2013 - present

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

DISCIPLINES