The ACM Grad Study Day is a virtual event created for graduate midwives to strengthen skills, confidence, and professional identity, with free registration available for ACM Graduate members. The day will focus on strengthening core midwifery skills, advancing clinical practice, and deepening connection with the philosophy and values that underpin midwifery care. Through expert-led sessions, the program will create space for learning, reflection, and connection as graduate midwives continue to grow in their practice and professional identity.
Alongside clinical skill development, the program will explore the broader professional capabilities that shape safe, compassionate midwifery care. Sessions will span topics including protecting and promoting breastfeeding, waterbirth, midwifery emergency skills, preventive and primary health care, non-pharmacological approaches to labour pain and perinatal mental health. Graduates will also be supported to build confidence in navigating complex and sensitive conversations, prioritise personal and professional wellbeing, and engage with consumer and lived-experience perspectives that ground learning in the realities of midwifery care.
Presentation Details
• Ariane Beeston, Director of Clinical Content at COPE: Centre of Perinatal Excellence, presenting on Perinatal Mental Health - What midwives need to know.
• Dr Nigel Lee, midwife and NHMRC Emerging Research Leadership Fellow at the University of Queensland, presenting on Sterile Water Injections: From midwifery voodoo to (almost) accepted practice, and beyond.
• Melanie Francis, Clinical Midwifery Educator at GynZone, presenting on Diagnosing perineal lacerations after birth.
• Alecia Staines, founder of Maternity Consumer Network, presenting on Consumer Engagement to Achieve Respectful Maternity Care.
• Boe Calvert, Research Midwife & Midwifery Specialist at Global Women's and Newborn's Health Group, presenting on WHO Consolidated guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of PPH.
• Esther Bacon, Stakeholder Engagement & Relations Consultant at Nurse & Midwife Support, presenting on Refill your cup; wellbeing and mentorship for graduate Midwives.
• Professor Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery and Director of Research in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University, presenting on Reducing Unnecessary Intrapartum Interventions.
• Dr Jen Hocking, Breastfeeding Information Advisor at Australian Breastfeeding Association, presenting on Supporting breastfeeding mums: starting the journey.