Joyce Marshall

Joyce joined the University of Huddersfield in 2010 as a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery with responsibilities in research and education. She qualified as a midwife in 1984 and she has worked clinically in a range of settings in different areas within the UK including: Salisbury, Guildford, West Dorset and Leeds. More recently Joyce has been actively involved in a combination of research and education. She completed Master of Public Health degree at the University of Liverpool in 1995, and won a Fellowship award that enabled her to complete a PhD at the University of Leeds in 2004. Since then she has worked as a researcher in primary care at the University of Leeds (2002–2006) and as a Midwifery Lecturer at the University of York (2006–2010).

Joyce will be developing research related to maternal and child health and midwifery practice. She is currently supervising three PhD students and a student undertaking a Professional Doctorate as well as regularly supervising students undertaking Masters Dissertations.

• Maternal/child health and knowledge use in clinical practice 
• The way breastfeeding women and health professionals value and use different kinds of evidence