Dr. Gemma McKenzie
@Childbirth_UK
ESRC Postdoc Fellow at King’s College London: maternity rights, consent, obstetric violence, freebirth, VAWG. Mother 💜 Vegan 🥑 Crocheter 🧶
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My latest article on #ObstetricViolence available online. So pleased this research made it to publication!
‘Everything is Obstetric Violence Now’: Identifying the Violence in ‘Obstetric Violence’ to Strengthen Socio-legal Reform Efforts academic.oup.com/ojls/article/d…
My article on #freebirth in The Conversation. It highlights the need to investigate which risks associated with maternity services women are trying to avoid when they freebirth.
#obstetricviolence
#maternityservices
#NHS
#humanrightsinchildbirth
theconversation.com/freebirth-risk…
Beyond excited to announce the upcoming conference
'Tackling #ObstetricViolence : Interdisciplinary Perspectives'
on 📅20 May, 9-5pm, at Exeter College, Oxford Cohen Quad with a STELLAR line-up of speakers!💫
Register to join us in person or online:
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Why do some expectant mothers choose to freebirth?
Dr Gemma McKenzie Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King's 💙 explores the social taboos and potential risks behind freebirth practices, and why for some, it’s a form of protection.
Dr. Gemma McKenzie
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The photoshoot has now finished, and we're officially open!
Arts and Humanities Research Council UK Research and Innovation The Folklore Society OU Health, Wellbeing & Social Care The Open University SRIP Early Career Researchers #AcademicTwitter #creativeresearch #WhyWeDoResearch #postdocs
Today Institute For Addressing Strangulation we say farewell to Dr. Gemma McKenzie Dr Gemma McKenzie as she follows her other research interest . Thank you Gemma for your contribution and tenacity in exploring and highlighting key factors in understanding NFS. More to do but you have lifted the lid…
Thank you M A Y A O P P E N H E I M 💃🏻 ✍️ for covering our research looking at strangulation homicides over 11 years.
Behind each death is a person who had family, friends, thoughts, feelings, hopes & dreams. More work needs to be done to explore this method of killing
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
My research for Institute For Addressing Strangulation quoted in The Independent 👇👇👇
Read the full report here ifas.org.uk/report-lays-ba…
#VAWG #Homicide #Strangulation #Suffocation #DomesticAbuse #domesticviolence
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
My report for Institute For Addressing Strangulation on #strangulation & #suffocation homicides in England and Wales inc. shocking no. of female victims of #DomesticAbuse , plus info on male victims, #infanticide , #parricide , #ElderAbuse , stranger homicides & more. Funded by Home Office stats from Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Over 29 months of withholding footage and within 24 hours of me giving this speech Greater Manchester Police release a statement. Apparently a CORRUPT disk means the evidential 2 hours of my 40+ hour detainment has been deleted.
How coincidental and how convenient.
I was drugged and
📢The Obstetric Violence Blog has a new post! Marie O'Connor traces the religious underpinnings of forced symphysiotomies in Ireland and exposes the continued lack of accountability for this form of #ObstetricViolence
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Durham CELLS
Organisers of the #NotMyKing protest have been arrested - police won't say what for
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On 18 May, Prof Sara Cohen Shabot will talk us through her deeply insightful research on #ObstetricViolence .
Hybrid event, registration opening soon!
Durham CELLS CRiVA Durham Law School
My Rights in the Maternity System: A feminist graphic zine inspired by The Freebirth Study graphicmedicine.org/my-rights-in-t… via @graphicmedicine artwork is incredibly accurate. Dr Claire Feeley Dr. Gemma McKenzie #iamnotavessel #makebirthbetter
Yesterday I was arrested by Herts Police whilst covering a protest on the M25.
I showed my press card, and I was handcuffed almost immediately. My phone was snatched out of my hand. I was searched twice, held in a cell for 5 hours, and I wasn’t questioned whilst in custody.
