Dr. Nicole Borg Cunen started her journey in midwifery with a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree at the University of Malta, completed between 2005-2009. She then went on to read for an M.Sc. in Advanced Professional Practice at Queen’s University Belfast, graduating with Distinction in 2012. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Hull in 2021, with a thesis entitled: Parents’ Experiences of Conceptualising and Relating to their Unborn Child: A Constructivist Grounded Theory.
Nicole was appointed full-time resident Assistant Lecturer within the Department of Midwifery at the University of Malta in 2013. She is currently primarily involved in teaching clinical skills to undergraduate midwifery students, as well as supervising dissertations at undergraduate level.
Nicole began her professional practice as a registered Midwife within the Department of Health in 2009, and continues to work in the clinical area as a Senior Midwife on a part-time basis.
Parental-fetal relations
Perinatal mental health
Grounded theory methodology
CUNEN, N.B., JOMEEN, J., XUEREB, R.B. and POAT, A., 2017. A narrative review of interventions addressing the parental–fetal relationship. Women and Birth, 30(4), pp. e141-e151.
BORG CUNEN, N., MCNEILL, J. and MURRAY, K., 2014. A systematic review of midwife-led interventions to address post partum post-traumatic stress. Midwifery; Midwifery, 30(2), pp. 170-184.
