Mandie Scamell is a medical anthropologist and registered midwife with 30 years of clinical, educational and research experience in maternity care.

Following 11 years of clinical practice, Mandie combined her anthropological and clinical expertise through her PhD thesis on midwifery understandings of risk and the impact these have on intrapartum care quality.

Since then, Mandie has been involved in education and research pursuing her interests in the culture of maternity care practice, risk, pregnancy length, intrapartum care, bio-ethics, maternal health inequalities, medical anthropology, participatory and inclusive research methods, critical theory and interactive pedagogy.

Mandie is co-editor of Risk, Pregnancy and Childbirth (Routledge), has written a range of book chapters exploring how risk operates in maternity clinical practice, research articles and edited Special Issue for Health Risk and Society.