Background
Felicity is a midwife whose roles include working clinically in pregnancy labour and the postpartum, holds an associate position at UTS Faculty of Health as a casual lecturer. She primally works as an international midwifery consultant across a range of projects that focus on strengthening midwifery education in low resource settings. These include upskilling midwives in perinatal mental health and preceptor training to support new graduate midwives
Qualifications
o 2002- Bachelor of Nursing - University of Sydney
o 2004 – Graduate Diploma in Midwifery – University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
o 2011 – Master of Research in Midwifery, UTS
o 2015 – Graduate Diploma Child & Family Health -Charles Darwin University
o 2019 – Graduate Certificate in Family Planning - FPNSW
Appointments
2017 – ongoing honorary associate position in Faculty of Health UTS
Burnet publications
View 1 moreHarnessing partnerships to strengthen global midwifery education to improve quality maternal and newborn health care: The Alliance to Improve Midwifery Education (AIME)
Midwifery
Sarah Bar‐Zeev et al
Midwifery capacity building in Papua New Guinea: Key achievements and ways forward
Women and Birth
Felicity Copeland
Conflicting contexts: Midwives’ interpretation of childbirth through photo elicitation
Women and Birth
Felicity Copeland
Current projects
Pacific SMILE: increasing access to midwifery simulation in Pacific countries
This project brings new midwifery simulation labs to countries in the Pacific region.
Immunisation, nurses and midwives in the Pacific
We're partnering to strengthen immunisation education for midwives and nurses across the Pacific.