# What does a midwife do?

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Podcast: [Behind the Genes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-the-genes-3509739)
Published: 2026-05-13T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://genomicsengland.podbean.com/e/what-does-a-midwife-do/
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## Resource

In this explainer episode, we’ve asked Kate Stanbury, research midwife on the Generation Study, to tell us more about the vital role that midwives play. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. If you’ve got any questions, or have any other topics you’d like us to explain, let us know on podcast@genomicsengland.co.uk. You can download the transcript or read it below. Florence: What does a midwife do? My name is Florence Cornish, and today I'm joined by Kate Stanbury, who is a research midwife working on the Generation Study, and she is going to be explaining the vital role that midwives play. So, to start off with Kate, I'm sure that most of our listeners will have heard of midwives before or maybe even like come across them in healthcare settings, but it would be good to hear from you more about what a midwife actually does. Kate: Yeah, absolutely. So, a midwife is someone who provides care and support to birthing people and their families during pregnancy, labour, and after birth as well. A lot of people just think of midwives as delivering babies, but we do a lot of other stuff around that as well. There are lots of different types of midwives as well, so we've got community midwives that might come out to your home and see you and your baby. We've got specialist midwives who might have a certain medical condition that they're experts in. And then we also have people like myself who are research midwives as well. Florence: So, you talked about a couple of different types of midwives there. Could you tell me more about the specific type of midwife that you are? Kate: Yeah, so a research midwife, as the name suggests, does research, so I also look after women during their…

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