Kelly Robinson

Kelly Robinson

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Psychology

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences


PhD topic: Exploring the value of midwifery-led continuity of care for bereaved families who are pregnant after perinatal loss. 

Fifty percent of families who have lost a child due to termination for medical reasons (TMFR), stillbirth or neonatal death embark on a subsequent pregnancy within twelve months of their loss. This is a pregnancy experience fraught with grief and bereavement, but also incredible anxiety and stress. My PhD thesis seeks to explore how the midwifery continuity of care model can support parents through this pregnancy experience, and how having a named caregiver can help alleviate the psychosocial stressors during a pregnancy after loss.

I working under the supervision of A/Prof Clemence Due & Dr Siobhan Loughnan (Centre for Research Excellence in Stillbirth, Mater Mothers, QLD).  

  • Journals

    Year Citation
    2008 Whittle, K., Kieser, J., Ichim, I., Swain, M., Waddell, N., Livingstone, V., & Taylor, M. (2008). The biomechanical modelling of non-ballistic skin wounding: blunt-force injury. Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 4(1), 33-39.
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  • Book Chapters

    Year Citation
    2008 Buckley, H., & Whittle, K. (2008). Identifying child abuse in skeletonised subadult remains.. In M. Oxenham (Ed.), Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse (pp. 123-132). Australian Academic Press.
    2008 Buckley, H., & Whittle, K. (2008). Identifying child abuse in skeletonised subadult remains.. In M. Oxenham (Ed.), Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse (pp. 123-132). Australian Academic Press.
    2008 Kieser, J., Whittle, K., Wong, B., Waddell, J. N., Nicholson, H., Taylor, M., . . . Swain, M. (2008). Understanding Craniofacial Blunt Force Injury: A Biomechanical Perspective.. In P. M. Tsokos (Ed.), Forensic Pathology Reviews 5 (Vol. 5, pp. 39-51). Forensic Pathology Reviews.
  • Conference Papers

    Year Citation
    2023 Robinson, K., Due, C., & Loughnan, S. (2023). Changing care for parents in subsequent pregnancies following stillbirth or neonatal death in Australia: Exploring support for optimising psychosocial wellbeing outcomes. In WOMEN AND BIRTH Vol. 36 (pp. S37). ELSEVIER.
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2024 Centre for Research Excellence in Stillbirth PhD Top-up Scholarship recipient

2015-2018  UniSA Casual academic - teaching Normal Pregnancy and Childbirth and Complications of Pregnancy tutorials.

2024 - ongoing Flinders University Casual Academic - teaching practical midwifery skills in a clinical simulation environment for 1st and 2nd year Midwifery students. 

  • Memberships

    Date Role Membership Country
    2021 - ongoing Member Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand (PSANZ) Australia
    2020 - ongoing Member Australian College of Midwives Australia
    2010 - ongoing Member New Zealand College of Midwives New Zealand

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