What has the AIMS Campaigns Team been up to this quarter?

ISSN 2516-5852 (Online)

AIMS Journal, 2024, Vol 36, No 1

By the AIMS Campaigns Team

Written outputs:

Conferences and meetings attended:

  • 8th November: Professor Mary Renfrew’s Cross-sectoral Multidisciplinary Workshop in Belfast
  • 16th & 17th November: BICS Conference in Cardiff
  • 17th November: Wales Maternity & Midwifery Festival
  • 18th November: ARM Hands off Midwifery! Power, Politics & Practice conference
  • 22nd November: MBRRACE Stakeholder Meeting, online
  • 30th November: NHS-E Maternity Transformation Stakeholders Council, in person
  • 4th December: RCM Research Prioritisation project steering group meeting, online
  • 8th December: International round-table of organisations supporting human rights in childbirth, online
  • 14th December: MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Enquiry
  • 15th December: Stakeholder meeting SBLCv2 evaluation, online
  • 8th January: RCM Research Prioritisation project partners meeting, online
  • 18th January: CHERISH project Stakeholder Advisory Network meeting

What else we have been reading:

What have we been watching:

Thanks to all the AIMS Campaigns Volunteers who have made this work possible. We are very keen to expand our campaigns team work, so please do get in touch with campaigns@aims.org.uk if you’d like to help.

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