Professor Fiona Alderdice holds a Chair in Perinatal Health and Well-being in the School of Nursing and Midwifery Queens University Belfast. She leads a strand of research on ‘What works for parents’ as part of a large interdisciplinary research group at Queens in the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation.  Her long standing research aim is to explore and enhance the health, wellbeing and experience of care of women and children. More specifically the Parent and Baby LAB research programme, which Professor Alderdice co-ordinates, aims to develop innovations that ultimately lead to high quality, low-cost, effective assessment of psychosocial function of women during pregnancy and in the family after birth. Furthermore, the work of the LAB aims to identify and develop simple low cost interventions that enhance family well-being and infant development, particularly with infants who are sick or premature.   

Professor Fiona Alderdice is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, Editor BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth and on the Editorial Board of Texto and Contexto Enfermagem, Brazil.