Best jdaviesk Podcasts (2025)

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Are you sitting comfortably? Making space for dads in maternity wards, to improve service quality and infant bonding. Pt 2 27:42

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Redesigning perinatal services to be father-inclusive can be a major task: one that most NHS commissioning bodies have yet to tackle. In Nottingham, consultant midwife Lisa Common has been leading a project to provide reclining chairs, and information packs, for fathers and other partners in maternity wards across the city. In this second episode a…

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Are you sitting comfortably? Making space for dads in maternity wards, to improve service quality and infant bonding. Pt 1 26:30

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Redesigning perinatal services to be father-inclusive can be a major task: one that most NHS commissioning bodies have yet to tackle. In Nottingham, consultant midwife Lisa Common has been leading a project to provide reclining chairs, and information packs, for fathers and other partners in maternity wards across the city. In this, the first of tw…

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Dad Matters – a commissioned service to support fathers’ bonding and early attachment. Pt 2 22:11

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Redesigning perinatal services to be father-inclusive can be a major task: one that most NHS systems have yet to tackle. In Greater Manchester, Dad Matters - a Home Start project - has emerged as a commissioned service that focuses on supporting fathers’ bonding and early attachment with their babies. In the second of two episodes looking in-depth …

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Dad Matters - a commissioned service to support fathers’ bonding and early attachment. Pt 1 25:27

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Redesigning perinatal services to be father-inclusive can be a major task: one that most NHS systems have yet to tackle. In Greater Manchester, Dad Matters - a Home Start project - has emerged as a commissioned service that focuses on supporting fathers’ bonding and early attachment with their babies. In this episode – the first of two with Dad Mat…

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Dads Shut Out: Could the NHS ‘build back’ better father-support by learning the lessons of the pandemic? 27:14

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The Covid-19 restrictions that prevented fathers and other partners accompanying women to antenatal appointments, scans, parts of labour – and in some cases childbirth - and either excluded or severely restricted their access to, postnatal wards – cast a long shadow over NHS maternity services. We’ve interviewed a range of people involved in studyi…

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The secrets of midwife-father communication during labour and the birth 40:22

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Dr Debbie Garrod is a midwife and researcher from Manchester, whose PhD used ethnographic techniques to explore how midwives and fathers communicate during labour and birth. Debbie used great skill and attention to detail to shed light on these life-changing encounters, creating a piece of research that is moving, profound and packed with great ins…

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Ask and keep asking: the campaign for better paternal perinatal mental health support 41:12

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This podcast features a group of fathers talking about maternity services – from their own experience, and those of other dads they know and have worked with. The three men in the room – Mark Williams (Fathers Reaching Out), Scott Mair (PMH Support) and Rob Osman (Dads in Mind) – are all in some way involved in work to support men having difficult …

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Stoic and supportive: understanding men’s journeys into fatherhood 30:12

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Drs Paul Hodkinson and Ranjana Das from the Sociology Department at Surrey University conducted in-depth interviews with 15 fathers, all living with the mother during the perinatal period. The men told them all about their journeys into fatherhood, the challenges they faced, and the role of digital communication at different stages of their experie…

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What dads need and want in perinatal systems 31:38

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Jeszemma Howl is head of training at the Fatherhood Institute, and has many years’ experience of grassroots work with dads, and of training and supporting midwives, health visitors and a multitude of other practitioners to work in father-inclusive ways. She also undertook a Winston Churchill travelling fellowship, to explore father-inclusive approa…

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The Life of Dad: a whistle-stop tour of human fatherhood 33:20

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Dr Anna Machin is a world-renowned evolutionary anthropologist, whose pioneering work explores the science and anthropology of fatherhood. Her book The Life of Dad (Simon & Schuster, June 2018) draws on her decade of research on fathering, at the University of Oxford. We sat down with Anna to find out about the origins of modern dads, the changes t…

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Are you sitting comfortably? Making space for dads in maternity wards, to improve service quality and infant bonding. Pt 2 27:42

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Are you sitting comfortably? Making space for dads in maternity wards, to improve service quality and infant bonding. Pt 1 26:30

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Dad Matters – a commissioned service to support fathers’ bonding and early attachment. Pt 2 22:11

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Building father-inclusive approaches: Dad Matters - a commissioned service to support fathers’ bonding and early attachment. Pt 1 25:27

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Dads Shut Out: Could the NHS ‘build back’ better father-support by learning the lessons of the pandemic? 27:14

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The secrets of midwife-father communication during labour and the birth 40:22

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Ask and keep asking: the campaign for better paternal perinatal mental health support 41:12

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Stoic and supportive: understanding men’s journeys into fatherhood 30:12

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What dads need and want in perinatal systems 31:38

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The Life of Dad: a whistle-stop tour of human fatherhood 33:20