Hannah Elizabeth

Following on from last week's post, this week I am talking about the last Master's assessment I submitted. It's a little bit outdated but nevertheless, I wanted to share it for my own memories, as well as to help those going through their own Midwifery Masters.  Writing this essay was a little bit of an odd one, because whilst a lot of students were writing it throughout the module, I had to finish my previous module which I had an extension for that didn't finish until October. Therefore, instead of writing from September, I didn't actually start until November, but once I started, I really got into it and fell into the zone.  The assessment involved selecting a research article and analysing the research methodology behind it, alongside using evidence to back all points and historical knowledge to build the foundations for research. I found the specification of this assessment quite prescriptive, which made it a lot easier to write than the other assessments which

This year is the year of musicals and shows and I couldn't be more excited, although after the big expense of my car and travelling this year, I am somewhat regretting purchasing all the tickets last year. Nevertheless, they're bought and paid for and I'm excited to see all the shows touring the UK, without having to travel to London. First up, the  Wizard of Oz , who are on tour  until August.  I was really excited to see this but when I saw the advertisement I was expecting JLS star Ashton, who sadly wasn't there. His character was still well played but it's always nice to recognise a celebrity. There was however, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner and Dancing On Ice star The Vivienne as The Wicked Witch of the West, although I personally don't know them.  The Scarecrow, The Tin Man and The Lion were brought some charm to the story, however I wasn't enthralled with them and they didn't keep my attention. I do wish they had a bit more of comical element to ma

A week yesterday, Sunday 5th May, marked International Day of the Midwife. I couldn't let it pass without sharing a post all about how I ended up celebrating.  It looked a little different for me, as I helped organise the event. As part of my new role which I'll share more of later, we organised gifts for all core staff (plus those working on the day), a fuddle of yummy food including a donated celebration cookie from my favourite bakery Wollaton Bakes, and for aromatherapy hand massages or inhalations. Labour Suite also got a load of individually wrapped cakes from a patient who had recently been looked after, the trust charity donated some chocolate boxes and the managers bought 6 bottles of wine to be raffled out to all midwives with a random number selector.  Sadly, the shift itself was was very busy and short staffed, so unfortunately I didn't get to see many of the midwives enjoy the event themselves, just a handful, but the coordinator and one of our managers ended u

My first module of my second year has well and truly come to an end. In fact it finished back in December and I have my essay result back, but how did the module teaching go? I shared my thoughts before starting  and my expectations were exceeded! The module was incredibly well organised with all sessions planned in advance and all content ready to go from the very start of the module which was always nice. We had a lecture each week which I enjoyed attending live in person. The course lead, Nick, is amazing. He's very attentive and incredibly knowledgeable. He was available to contact almost 24/7 and always replied to any messages very quickly which always makes such a huge difference.  The topics each week varied but related to a topic within research. I have already done research teaching before, and also completed primary research myself, but being able to have a refresher on all the topics was really useful. These included Ethics, Sampling, Quantitative Research, Qualitative R

I went to the Disney100 Exhibition back in November, when I took a trip to London. It was somewhat of a last minute add on but I was so excited when I saw it was on, so I made the trip over to the ExCel Centre to visit. In all honesty, I hadn't been there before so I was quite excited but I shouldn't have been. There wasn't very much there, despite the massive size and I walked the entire length back and forth twice.  The show was originally stopping in December, then got extended to February and now has been extended again until the end of June. You would have thought that would mean it was amazing and incredible, and oh so popular. I can't deny it's popularity in general because I am sure they would only be able to keep extending multiple times if that was the case, but I can say that when I was, it was so incredibly quiet, there was times I had rooms to myself.  Disney100: The Exhibition is the largest exhibition the Walt Disney Archives has ever created as it c

It has been such a long time since I sat down to write a post. In fact, bar a one-off post for a "weekly" which turned out to be monthly vlog, I haven't written a post since February when I wrote quite a few all at once. It's been a while and the longest I've gone without writing in over 10 years!  In all honesty, I have felt zero motivation to sit down and write and all of a sudden I felt like today was the day. I have always loved sharing my thoughts and writing my life down on paper. I find it reflective to get words out and also love sharing things that I've enjoyed and liked along the way. Sadly, with events in life taking it's toll once again, I lost that motivation and passion. Whilst I still don't think it's back back, it's much better than it has been and I think writing again will help with that.  April 5th 2024 marked a day that I thought I would be getting married. 3 years ago, I had no doubt in my mind I would end the day as a wife