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Dr Pendleton is an experienced Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, having worked in the role since 2014.  He has taught across the midwifery curriculum and led modules on public health and research methods.  He currently leads on the final year dissertation module and the second year module on cultural competence in midwifery.  He also provides dissertation supervision for students on the MSc in Public Health.

He has led on the midwifery programme's recruitment and admissions strategy, is a member of the Faculty Research Ethics Committee, and represents midwifery at the annual Florence Network of European Nursing & Midwifery Programmes (https://florence-network.org/ ).

Prior to becoming an academic, Dr Pendleton graduated from the University of Nottingham with a Joint Honours degree in French and Spanish.  He then spent nine years working for BBC Teleivsion, becoming a a producer and director on a wide variety of network documentaries including co-productions with the Open University.  Upon qualifying as a midwife, Dr Pendleton worked initially on a high-risk conslutant-led unit before spending the majority of his clinical career as a community midwife with an interest in home birth.

 

Research Interests

Dr Pendleton's main research focus centres on examining reproductive justice through the lens of gender and how gender operates in organizational spaces.  His PhD thesis is an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the experiences of men who work as midwives.  It is the first to explore how a marginal number of men in an otherwise mono-gendered profession make sense of their experiences.  Filtered through the lens of gender, it seeks to understand how they navigate a space where they are neither wanted, needed, or deemed unproblematically acceptable to either service users or the profession as a whole.  Dr Pendleton has carried out peer-participatory research with students from minoritized ethnicities to try and understand their experiences within the NHS.  He is also part of an interdisciplinary and cross-continental team of academics, clinicans, and community members focussed on achieving gender inclusivity in perinatal spaces.

He is a member of the Faculty's Health Sciences and Services Research Centre as well as the Diversity, Community, and Identity Special Interest Group.

 

 

External Roles

Dr Pendleton is an Honorary Research Fellow for the Centre for Healthcare and Communities at Coventry University.  He is also an External Examiner for the level 5 provision on the BSc (Hons) Midwifery programme at the University of Huddersfield.

He is an Exchange Co-Ordinator for the Florence Network which represents nursing and midwifery programmes across Europe and has represented the University of Northampton at annual meetings in Brussels, Madrid and Thessaly (Greece). He has also developed an exchange partnership with midwifery at the University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland where he has been an invited lecturer.

He has sat as a member of the Health Education England Global Majority Student Experience Steering Group and the NHS England Men & Diversity in Midwifery Steering Group.

 

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Men who work as midwives: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, University of Northampton

19 Mar 201922 Aug 2024

Award Date: 22 Aug 2024

Master, University of Northampton

Award Date: 1 Feb 2017

Bachelor, University of Northampton

Award Date: 27 Jan 2012

Bachelor, University of Nottingham

Award Date: 11 Jul 1995

External positions

External Examiner, University of Huddersfield

16 Sept 202415 Dec 2028

Honorary Research Fellow, Coventry University

1 Oct 2023 → …

FLECO, The Florence Network

Mar 2018 → …

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