Fiona Alderdice
BSSc (Hons), PhD
Senior Social Scientist, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit
- Professor in Perinatal Health and Wellbeing, Queen’s University Belfast
Fiona Alderdice is the Senior Social Scientist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and Professor in Perinatal Health and Wellbeing at Queen’s University Belfast. Fiona has an undergraduate degree and PhD in Psychology from Queen’s University Belfast and her research interests in maternal and child health date back to 1992 when she first worked at the NPEU as a research fellow. She was awarded a MRC HSR training fellowship in 1998 to support her work on complex pregnancy and she joined the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queens University Belfast in 2002 . Fiona was promoted to Chair in Perinatal Health and Well-being in 2010 and she joined the NPEU in January 2017. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is a long-standing Cochrane reviewer. Her research focuses on 1) assessing maternal/infant need and experience by developing population surveys that can be used to benchmark perinatal health and wellbeing nationally and internationally 2) developing interventions to promote psychological wellbeing in the perinatal period and 3) conducting follow up studies of vulnerable infants e.g. preterm and growth restricted babies.
Recent publications
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Correction: Impact of sampling and data collection methods on maternity survey response: a randomised controlled trial of paper and push-to-web surveys and a concurrent social media survey.
Journal article
Harrison S. et al, (2023), BMC Med Res Methodol, 23
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Impact of sampling and data collection methods on maternity survey response: a randomised controlled trial of paper and push-to-web surveys and a concurrent social media survey
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HARRISON S. et al, (2023), BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Learning from a crisis: a qualitative study of the impact on mothers' emotional wellbeing of changes to maternity care during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, using the National Maternity Survey 2020.
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McLeish J. et al, (2022), BMC Pregnancy Childbirth, 22
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Routine E-Screening for Perinatal Mental Health During the COVID-19 Emergency: Beyond the Instrument Cut-Off Points
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Grussu P. et al, (2022), Maternal and Child Health Journal
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How women with obsessive compulsive disorder experience maternity care and mental health care during pregnancy and postpartum: A systematic literature review.
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Burton HAL. et al, (2022), J Affect Disord, 314, 1 - 18