Rachel Ollivier, PhD

• Thesis Canada: Childbearing persons’ experiences of postpartum sexual health 2022 (pending)

• Ollivier, R., Aston, M., Price, S., Sim, M., Benoit, B., Joy, P., Iduye, D., & Akbari Nassaji, N. (2021). Mental Health & Parental Concerns during COVID-19: The Experiences of New Mothers Amidst Social

• Ollivier, R., Aston, M. & Price S. (2018). Let’s Talk About Sex: A Feminist Post-Structural Approach to Addressing Sexual Health in the Health Care Setting. Journal of Clinical Nursing 28, (3-4) 695-702. doi:10.1111/jocn.14685

Evelyn Abudulai, MA

• Maternal Bodies And Obesity :Rethinking Dominant Perspectives, Exploring A Path Less Travelled. 2014. Link: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/item.aspx?idNumber=1033225009

Danielle Macdonald, MA and PhD

• Exploring Collaboration Between Midwives and Nurses in Nova Scotia :a Feminist Poststructuralist Case Study. 2019 Link: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/item.aspx?idNumber=1107412034

• Macdonald, D., Aston, M., Tomblin Murphy, G., Jefferies, K, Mselle, L., Price, S., O'Hearn, S., White, M., Mbekenga, C., & Kohi, T. (2018). Providing postpartum care with limited resources: The experiences of nurse-midwives and obstetricians in Tanzania. Women and Birth, 32(3), e391-e398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2018.07.016

Jacqueline van Wijlen, MA, PhD

• Van Wijlen, J. E., & Aston, M. (2019). Applying Feminist Poststructuralism as a Framework for Exploring Infant Feeding Interactions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 1(1), 59-72. https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.12

Debbie Sheppard-Lemoine, PhD 

• Thesis: Examining Enhanced Home Visiting Programs in Halifax Nova Scotia 2015. Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/59083

• Sheppard-LeMoine, D., Aston, M., Goldberg, L., MacDonald, J., & Tamlyn, D. (2021). Empowering Public Health Nurses and Community Home Visitors through Effective Communication Relationships. Nursing Reports, 11, 652–665. https:// doi.org/10.3390/nursrep11030062

Cathy Sheffer, PhD

• Thesis: Breastfeeding experiences and Heideggerian phenomenology 2015. Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/58292

Justine Dol, PhD

Thesis: Exploring the postnatal care experience & the opportunity of mHealth to improve psychosocial outcomes: The development of Essential Coaching for Every Mother Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/80329

• Dol, J., Aston, M., Grant, A., McMillan, D., Tomblin Murphy, G., & Campbell-Yeo, M. Implementing Essential Coaching for Every Mother during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post intervention study. (Accepted). Birth.

• Dol, J., Richardson, B., Tomblin Murphy, G., Aston, M., McMillan, D., & Campbell-Yeo, M. (Accepted). Canadian women’s experience of postnatal care: A mixed method study. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research.

• Dol, J., Richardson, B., Grant, A., Tomblin Murphy, G., Aston, M., McMillan, D., & Campbell-Yeo, M. The role of parity and age of newborn on self-efficacy, social support, postpartum anxiety and postpartum depression in the first six months postpartum in the Maritime Provinces, Canada. Birth. (Accepted)

• Dol, J., Benoit, B., Richardson, B., Tomblin Murphy, G., Aston, M., McMillan, D. Gahagan, J., & Campbell-Yeo, M. (2020). Risk of bias in randomized controlled trials: An analysis of parent-targeted postnatal education interventions from low and middle-income countries. Global Health: Annual Review, 1(5), 73-77.

• Dol, J., Tomblin Murphy, G., Aston, M., McMillan, D., & Campbell-Yeo, M. (2020). Design, development and usability testing of Essential Coaching for Every Mother: A postnatal text message educational intervention. Women and Birth, epub ahead of print.

• Dol, J., Campbell-Yeo, M., Tomblin Murphy, G., Aston, M., & McMillan, D., Gahagan, J., & Richardson, B. (2019). Parent-targeted postnatal educational interventions in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review and critical analysis. International Journal of Nursing Studies. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.03.011

Annette Elliott-Rose PhD committee member

• Thesis:  Centering Women and Newborns in Health Human Resources Planning: A needs-based approach to primary maternity health care in Nova Scotia. 2015. Link: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/item.aspx?idNumber=1032927511

Meaghan Sim, PhD

• Thesis: Exploring Breastfeeding Practices in Obese, Low-Income, Food Insecure Mothers 2016. Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/72729

• Sim, M., Kirk, S. & Aston, M. (2020) Mothering at the intersection of marginality: Breastfeeding beliefs and practices among women from Nova Scotia, Canada who identify as overweight, low-income and food insecure Qualitative Health Research https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320921830

• Sim SM, Aston M, Kirk SFL. (2016). When mothering doesn’t ‘measure up’: breastfeeding in the context of obesity and income-related food insecurity. Mothers and Food. Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives, Demeter Press, edited by Florence I. Pasche Guignard, PhD & Tanya Cassidy, PhD)

 Victoria Little, MA

• Thesis: First Time Mothers' Experiences of Prenatal Education and Support, 2018. Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/73864

 Cynthia Mann, MA

• Thesis: Knowledge and Attitudes of Postpartum Hospital and Public Health Nurses Regarding Postpartum Depression: An Exploratory Study 2013. Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/21443

 Maura Donovan, MA

• Thesis: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: An Exploration of Family Home Visiting Programs Involving both Volunteer and Paid Visitors 2011. Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/14400

 Darlene Inglis, MA

• Thesis: A Feminist Phenomenological Study of Skin to Skin contact with Mothers and Nurses in NICU 2010. Link:

 Janis MacLellan-Peters, MA

• Thesis Canada 2009

• Peters, J. and Aston, M. (2009). Don't Blame Low-Income Mothers! Understanding Low-Income Mothers' Socio-ecological Circumstances in Relation to Health Status Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 11(2), 98-110. Retrieved from: https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/article/viewFile/23781/21981

Emma Cameron, MA

Thesis:  2021

 • Stirling Cameron, E., Ramos, H., Aston, M., Kuri, M., & Jackson, L. (2021). “COVID affected us all:” the birth and postnatal health experiences of resettled Syrian refugee women during COVID-19 in Canada. BMC Reproductive Health, 18(256), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01309-2

• Stirling Cameron, E., Aston, M., Ramos, H., Kuri, M., & Jackson, L. (2021). The postnatal experiences of resettled Syrian refugee women: Access to healthcare and social support in Nova Scotia, Canada. Manuscript in-press in Midwifery. 104 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.103171

Kate MacWilliams, Masters

• Thesis: Women’s Experiences of Miscarriage in an Emergency Dept. 2014. Link: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/54046

• MacWilliams, M., Hughes, J., Aston, M., Field, S. & Wight-Moffatt, F. (2016). Understanding the experience of miscarriage in the emergency department. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 42(6), 504-512. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2016.05.011

Janis Kay, Masters

• Thesis: Phenomenological Exploration of Teen Mothers Infant Feeding Practices 2010

Jennifer Lane (Searle), PhD

• Searle, J., Goldberg, L., Aston, M., & Burrow, S. (2017). Accessing new understandings of trauma-informed care with queer birthing women in rural Nova Scotia. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(21-22), 3576-3587. doi:10.1111/jocn.13727