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Sheila is a senior lecturer in health sciences at ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ and is an experienced nurse, midwife and academic.

Sheila has held all operational roles within the midwifery programme and was the lead midwife for education (LME), from 2016 to 2022. During her time as LME, significant improvements were made to the midwifery programme and to overall student satisfaction. Sheila led on the development, approval, and validation of the most recent midwifery programme at ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ which commenced in September 2022.

Sheila's journey as a health care professional started in British Columbia, in Canada, where she trained as a nurse in the Fraser Valley qualifying in 1993. Her main area of nursing expertise was in perinatal nursing. She then lived and worked in Australia for two years and completed a MSc (Midwifery) at the Unviersity of Wollongong in NSW. Sheila has worked in 5 different countries during her career, including in the Arctic in Canada and in Central Australia. She also volunteered in West Africa as a nurse.

Sheila grew up in Scotland, and moved back to the UK, to live in Wales in 2004. She completed a shortened Midwifery programme at ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ in 2007, and worked as a midwife in North Wales until 2015 when she moved into full-time midwifery education.

Sheila is passionate about her contribution to the optimisation of midwifery and maternity care through the provision of high quality health and midwifery education. 

Email: s.j.s.brown@bangor.ac.uk

• Other: Master of Research in Health and Social Care
  Manchester University, 2011–2013
• MSc
  University of Wollongong, 2003–2004
• BSc
  University of Wales, Bangor, 2005–2007
• 
  British Columbia Institute of Technology, 1994–2001
• Professional
  University College of the Fraser Valley, 1991–1993

Sheila teaches on all topics relating to midwifery at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and also contributes to interprofessional learning.

Her particular areas of expertise are supporting women to breastfeed, community midwifery, labour and birth, professional practice, and quality assurance of midwifery education.

Sheila supervises masters students on MSc pathways within the school of health sciences.

Sheila completed a Master of Research at the University of Manchester in 2013.

Her research project was "Women's Experiences of Cervical Ripening on an Antenatal Ward". This was a self funded project. 

Sheila is a PhD student. Phase 1 of her PhD studies is a realist synthesis exploring what works to support student midwives to become accountable, autonomous, professional midwives. Phase 2 of her PhD project is exploring educators' views of implementing theories from Phase 1. 

2023

• Published
  Brown, S. & Roberts, J., 1 May 2023, In: The Practising Midwife. 26, 5, p. 14-17 4 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Brown, S., 1 Dec 2023, In: The Practising Midwife. 26, 11, p. 10-15 5 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• Published
  Brown, S., Roberts, J. & Ford, E., Oct 2022, Maternity and Midwifery Forum.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2021

• Published
  Roberts, S., Brown, S. & Roberts, S., Oct 2021, In: Midwifery. 101, 10 p., 103043.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• Published
  Brown, S. (Contributor), 3 Jul 2019, Welsh Government. 24 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• Published
  Kendall, S., Eida, T., Merritt, R., Burden, P., Thompson, K. (Contributor), Chucha, S. (Contributor), Phillips, H. (Contributor), Fox, S. (Contributor), Brown, S. (Contributor), Trickey, D. H. (Contributor), Warren, L. (Contributor), Jones, G. (Contributor), Brown, A. (Contributor), Entwistle, F. (Contributor), Jewell, K. (Contributor) & Thomas, C. (Contributor), 19 Jun 2019, 62 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

2016

• Published
  Brown, S., 3 Nov 2016.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

2015

• Published
  Brown, S. J. & Furber, C. M., 24 Jun 2015, In: Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. 6, 4, p. 219-225
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2025

• This was part of session 4 of this conference: 'Creating a thriving midwifery community'

  28 Feb 2025

  Links:

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2024

• 13 Nov 2024

  Links:

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

• International Confederation of Midwives - Indigenous midwifery working group

  1 May 2024 – 1 May 2026

  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)

2023

• An online conference for student midwives in the UK

  I was asked to provide a presentation at this event.

  11 Jan 2023

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

2022

• This conference focused on contemporary pressures for midwifery education in the UK

  3 Nov 2022

  Links:

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

• We presented an 'elevator pitch' presentation outlining our concept based pedagogical approach for the new midwifery programme that has been approved and validated against the 2019 NMC Standards for midwifery education

  31 Mar 2022

  Links:

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

• I presented an 'elevator pitch' along with a colleague from Cardiff Universty to provide an overview of the Once for Wales midwifery practice assessment document (MPAD); tools to manage the challenges

  23 Mar 2022

  Links:

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

2017

• Working together to implement a Pre-qualifying skills passport in Wales: concurrent session

  18 Jun 2017 – 22 Jun 2017

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

Sheila is a volunteer for the charity Blood Bikes Wales, along with her husband who is a volunteer rider.