About me

My heart is in maternity care, where I have carried out qualitative research on policy and the culture of maternity organisations for the last 15 years. What I love most about my work is supporting health professionals so they feel positive about their work - which in turn means they’re able to support women more effectively and whole-heartedly. 

I help maternity professionals and organisations find the evidence and direction they need to be able to  provide high quality, safe maternity care to women and birthing people. In practice that can look like planning a research project, conducting the research itself, facilitating difficult conversations on the needs of service users and staff, analysing and writing up results, learning and next steps.

Between Summer 2021 and 2022, I was the Re:Birth Research Fellow at the Royal College of Midwives, co-ordinating a national consultation on the language we use to talk about different types of birth.

I work with some fantastic collaborators: Dr Danielle Bodicoat at Simplified Data for statistics and quantitative work; Emma Insley at Insley Consulting for expertise in evaluation methods and Anneliese Levy at Thoughtful Content, for communications and content strategy. I’m an Associate of the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Action Planning and Insley Consulting, based in Oxford, working across the South and Midlands of England or remotely anywhere. 

I am a Trustee of Oxfordshire Breastfeeding Support who support families across Oxfordshire, and in 2015 co-founded Tales of Our City, exploring Oxford's queer history through oral history, archives, exhibitions and events.

When I’m not navigating other people’s stories, I’m usually to be found swimming in rivers or in heated negotiations with my six year old daughter. And, not content with telling stories at work, I also tell traditional stories whenever I can and I love exploring historical documentary footage (like the amazing BFI archive) to find out what we can learn about people’s stories from the rest of the twentieth century.

 Got some interests in common? Let’s chat! hello@julietrayment.co.uk