Bernice is a Doctoral student in Midwifery based at the Midwifery Department of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care. Her research, funded by King’s College London, focuses on the use of medical interventions during childbirth in Ghana. She is a Registered Midwife with an MSc in Midwifery from The University of Nottingham, UK and a BSc in Midwifery from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

Research interests:

• Midwifery practice in resource-constrained settings
• Medicalisation of childbirth
• Decision making on place of birth
• Maternal and Child health