All Outputs (13)

'“As much as I miss it… I can't bring myself to go back”: Experiences of early career registered nurses who leave nursing.' (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bastow, F., Atherton, I., McLuckie, C., & Mahoney, C. (2024, September). '“As much as I miss it… I can't bring myself to go back”: Experiences of early career registered nurses who leave nursing.'. Presented at RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2024, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Background

There is evidence of a nursing workforce crisis with increasing intention to leave (Royal College of Nursing, 2021), yet little is known about the experience of leaving the profession or direct nursing care. Actual nursing turnover need... Read More about '“As much as I miss it… I can't bring myself to go back”: Experiences of early career registered nurses who leave nursing.'.

Surfacing the self-evident in anti-racist pedagogic research: how to ask the wrong people the right questions, and how not to ask the right people anything at all (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLuckie, C. (2024, June). Surfacing the self-evident in anti-racist pedagogic research: how to ask the wrong people the right questions, and how not to ask the right people anything at all. Paper presented at The Gathering: Edinburgh Napier's Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh, UK

Our Strategic Enhancement Project did not generate anything surprising. That doesn’t mean it didn’t generate anything important. It aimed to consider whether using an adapted ‘Decolonising Midwifery: Education Toolkit' (Royal College of Midwives, 202... Read More about Surfacing the self-evident in anti-racist pedagogic research: how to ask the wrong people the right questions, and how not to ask the right people anything at all.

Developing an evaluation framework for an online midwifery programme: a practical participatory approach (2024)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y., Norris, G., Crozier, S., & McLuckie, C. (in press). Developing an evaluation framework for an online midwifery programme: a practical participatory approach. Quality Assurance in Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/qae-03-2024-0048

Purpose:
This paper aims to generate knowledge about relevant evaluation topics that align with and represent the unique character of the midwifery programme for students living in the rural and remote areas of Scotland.

Design/methodology/approa... Read More about Developing an evaluation framework for an online midwifery programme: a practical participatory approach.

Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Mcluckie, C., & Kuipers, Y. (2024). Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis. Nurse Education in Practice, 74, Article 103847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103847

Background
The construction and performance of professional identity is significant to broader socio-cultural understandings of who ‘professionals’ are and what they do. Importantly, it is also implicated in the development and enactment of policy,... Read More about Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis.

How to evaluate the Scottish shortened midwifery programme – an exploration of stakeholders’ perceptions (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crozier, S., Kuipers, Y., McLuckie, C., & Norris, G. (2022, November). How to evaluate the Scottish shortened midwifery programme – an exploration of stakeholders’ perceptions. Paper presented at Scotland Maternity and Midwifery Festival, Edinburgh

The presentation will outline the development of a new shortened midwifery programme in Scotland, the stakeholder-led participatory approach to evaluation and the emerging themes of interest for the management and leadership of midwifery education an... Read More about How to evaluate the Scottish shortened midwifery programme – an exploration of stakeholders’ perceptions.

Discursive constructions of professional identity - the myth of the midwife (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLuckie, C. (2022, November). Discursive constructions of professional identity - the myth of the midwife. Paper presented at Scotland Maternity and Midwifery Festival 2022, Edinburgh, UK

This paper discusses a discourse analysis of regulatory policy which formed part of my doctoral study ‘Powers, passages and passengers: the construction and performance of student midwives’ professional identities’ (Mcluckie, 2021). The title employs... Read More about Discursive constructions of professional identity - the myth of the midwife.

'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities (2021)
Thesis
McLuckie, C. 'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities. (Thesis). University of Stirling. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2793206

This thesis details my study of the discourses within which student midwives construct and perform their professional identities. The title employs a metaphor commonly used in midwifery and obstetric texts to articulate the powers, passages and passe... Read More about 'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities.

Analysing narratives: the narrative construction of professional identity (2020)
Book Chapter
Watson, C., & Mcluckie, C. (2020). Analysing narratives: the narrative construction of professional identity. In M. R. Ward, & S. Delamont (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education (380-391). (2nd). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977159.00045

This chapter starts from the premise that identity and narrative are intimately bound. Indeed, it is widely claimed that identity emerges in and through our narratives of personal experience. However, while there may be some consensus around the narr... Read More about Analysing narratives: the narrative construction of professional identity.

Feminist Activist Ethnography and the Development of Midwifery Identity in Student Midwives (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McHugh, N., & McLuckie, C. (2018, June). Feminist Activist Ethnography and the Development of Midwifery Identity in Student Midwives. Poster presented at RCM Education Conference, London UK

Celebrating 70 Years of Nursing and Midwifery in NHS Scotland (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Taylor, G., Harper-McDonald, B., O'Conner, S., McLuckie, C., & Moran, M. Celebrating 70 Years of Nursing and Midwifery in NHS Scotland. Exhibited at Edinburgh. 7 June 2018

An exhibition celebrating 70 years of nursing and midwifery in NHS Scotland.

Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions (2018)
Journal Article
Baverstock, A., Steinitz, J., Webster-Henderson, B., Bryars, L., Cairncross, S., Ennis, L., Morris, W., Gray, A., & McLuckie, C. (2018). Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions. Logos, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-02904005

Seeking to improve student enrolment, engagement, and retention, Kingston University began a pre-arrival shared reading scheme in 2014–2015, sending a free book to every student about to start at the university and making copies available to staff in... Read More about Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions.

Pandora's Box: how to humanise educational technology to ensure an emotionally fluent midwifery programme - recognising the issues (2013)
Journal Article
McLuckie, C., & McHugh, N. (2013). Pandora's Box: how to humanise educational technology to ensure an emotionally fluent midwifery programme - recognising the issues. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 23, 423-427

This article will focus on the challenge of providing an
emotionally vibrant midwifery curriculum for our three year
undergraduate programme. We plan to achieve this
through the creative use of e-learning opportunities and
face-to-face workshops,... Read More about Pandora's Box: how to humanise educational technology to ensure an emotionally fluent midwifery programme - recognising the issues.

Enabling prospective nursing and midwifery students to demonstrate their compassionate and caring attributes during the recruitment and selection process. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waugh, A., Petrie, G., MacKinnon, F., McLuckie, C., & Gentleman, M. (2010, June). Enabling prospective nursing and midwifery students to demonstrate their compassionate and caring attributes during the recruitment and selection process. Poster presented at Inaugural Conference on Compassionate Care