Objective: To explore the perspectives of student midwives, midwifery educationalists and midwifery clinicians from and connected to one University in order to identify strategies to enhance awareness of sexual and gender diversity in a pre- registration midwifery curriculum.
Design: A mixed method study including an online survey and a series of focus groups Setting: One University in London Participants: 47 survey respondents and 16 focus group participants Findings: Two Inductive themes were developed from the data analysis: Practising Open Mindedness and Cultivating Openness and four sub themes; Making Assumptions, Developing self- awareness, Challenge and Discomfort and Safe spaces. Participants proposed learning strategies that they thought would facilitate cultivating openness and open mindedness.
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