ProfMaralyn Foureur

Connect on LinkedIn
Connect on ResearchGate

Professor of Midwifery at UTS, Maralyn Foureur, is a leading midwifery and midwifery education researcher, with a special interest in keeping birth normal to improve outcomes for mothers and babies. She is interested in how the design of birth units and the objects within them affect the women and staff who use them. She is particularly interested in whether there is a link between the design of birth rooms and the increasing number of emergency surgical births.

Maralyn has also led research into the development and implementation of innovative models of midwifery care and the development of midwifery practice and education. She co-leads a consortium called Birth After Caesarean Interventions that is undertaking research to promote normal birth and increase the rate of vaginal birth after caesarean section.

She is involved in a number of projects in Sydney, the Central Coast and the Hunter Valley establishing and evaluating innovative models of care for obese pregnant women.

Maralyn is an adjunct professor of midwifery at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and at the University of Southern Denmark.