The Maternity Mentoring Toolkits: Accelerating Impact of Philosophical and Psychological Research to Improve Perinatal Employee Support and Communication (MaMeT) project, which aims to improve the experiences of those returning to work after maternity/ parental leave through a research-based support toolkit, is now recruiting participants from Faculty Arts and Humanities and Faculty of Medicine. The MaMeT project is a collaboration between researchers at Southampton and Keele and local maternity mentoring business, bump & glide.
Participants in the intervention group will benefit from a free course of Maternity Mentoring.
Pregnancy and early motherhood/parenthood is always a time of huge transition and commonly associated with a loss of confidence, self-esteem and sense-of-self. Parenthood often has a significant impact on women’s careers, with a reduction in earnings of about 45 per cent over the course of their career compared to the earnings of childless women. bump & glide offer a “360° approach” with mentoring covering the pivotal time in between pregnancy and the return to work. Principal investigator Fiona Woollard, Southampton and Alexandra Kent, Keele, have worked with bump & glide to further enhance their maternity mentoring toolkits.
To find out more about the study, including whether you are eligible to take part, please email Fiona: [email protected] or visit the project website: fionawoollard.weebly.com/mamet
Ethics/ERGO no: 86817