How Professional Doctorates are empowering nurses and midwives to lead
…fully embedded in practice and professional decision-making, for public benefit’. Four years previously, and almost as if in anticipation, we launched our Professional Doctorate in Nursing at Oxford Brookes University. The professional doctorate in Midwifery followed shortly after. At the time of writing, our first cohort of professional doctorate students are preparing for, or following up on their vivas, in which they discuss and defend their pr…