Dr Rebecca Whybrow is a Lecturer in Midwifery at King’s College London. As an experienced midwife, educator and researcher, Rebecca specialises in ‘high-risk’ pregnancies, intrapartum care, clinician and patient decision-making, and health service policy.

Rebecca’s NIHR funded PhD explored the implementation of shared decision-making in pregnant women with hypertension which included codesigned antihypertensive patient decision aids (endorsed by NICE).

Rebecca has spent two years at the Department of Health and Social Care advising ministers and policy makers on fetal brain injury reduction, maternity leadership and culture as well as the Women’s Health Strategy. She was also an ‘Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions and their babies’ NICE guideline committee member.

Enquiring about potential PhD supervision

If you’re thinking of applying for one of our PhD programmes and are looking for potential supervisors, please email nmpc_pgr_enquiries@kcl.ac.uk listing the names of the supervisors you’ve identified as having expertise in your chosen area, along with your CV and a short research proposal. 

Our Postgraduate Research Team will contact supervisors on your behalf and get back to you. If you have any queries in the meantime, please use the email address above, rather than contacting potential PhD supervisors directly, because they are unable to respond to initial enquiries.

Rebecca's research interests are midwifery practice, maternal medicine, women's health, health service policy and management, shared decision-making, clinical decision-making, implementation science, multiple methodologies, codesign methodology and systematic review.