Dr Sam Bassett is Head of Department, Midwifery and Lead Midwife for Education at King’s College London. An experienced midwife and educationalist her ongoing centre of clinical practice is high-risk pregnancies completing her doctorate in 2016 focusing on maternal high dependency care. 

Sam's teaching expertise includes midwifery emergencies, medical complexities in childbirth, and low and hi fidelity simulation with a particular interest in the use of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) across both pre and post-qualification curriculums. 

Clinical midwifery practice remains central to Sam’s work and she continues to contribute to the development of key practice guidelines/publications and instruct on courses such as the Resuscitation Council-UK Newborn Life Support (NLS) and represents midwifery on national courses such as Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergency Training (mMOET).

Research interests

• Maternal medical complexities
• Midwifery high dependency care

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.

 

Research profile