Ms Wimbayi Musodza

Wimbayi Musodza is an Associate Research Fellow and the Western Sydney Midwifery Research Centre and a current PhD candidate at Western Sydney University. Her PhD thesis is entitled “The experiences of midwives when they return to work following a personal pregnancy loss or neonatal death: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study. She has a keen interest in research on perinatal grief and loss, infant feeding, migrant and refugee populations in Australia, and contemporary nursing and midwifery education. Wimbayi is also a registered practising midwife. Following completion of her secondary school education in Zimbabwe, Wimbayi completed her nursing and midwifery training in London, United Kingdom, achieving a First-class BSc (Hons) degree at the City University in 2007. Wimbayi has worked in various midwifery contexts since her initial midwifery qualification and has a passion for supporting women and their families in breastfeeding and optimising postnatal health and wellbeing for both mother and baby. She has extensive experience and knowledge gained from working in different countries, having practised midwifery in the UK, in the Republic of Ireland and now in Australia. Wimbayi is also a current International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 2011.