Dr Ginny Mounce

PhD, MSc, RM, FHEA

Senior Lecturer - Course Lead Professional Doctorate in Nursing and Midwifery

Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery

Role

Senior Lecturer with a background in midwifery, fertility/infertility and clinical research delivery for reproductive health and childbirth studies. I welcome inquiries about potential research opportunities and collaborations from other researchers, particularly relating to early pregnancy, assisted reproduction and parenthood.

I am examiner for the MSc in Clinical Embryology at the University of Oxford.

I am a registered midwife.

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

I am module leader for midwifery courses:

Introduction to Research and Evidence
A midwifery Research Proposal
Philosophy for Midwifery Practice

I also teach on several other modules, with particular interests being transitions to parenthood, early pregnancy and fertility, and provide BSc/MSc dissertation supervision. I am also course lead for the Doctorates in Nursing and Midwifery, and teach modules for this programme, including the MSc in Applied Health Research.

Supervision

Supervision of PhD and professional doctorate students.

Carol Forde-Johnston, An exploration of nurse-patient interactions in acute hospital settings when Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems are used (2025)
Giada Giusmin, What happens during postnatal perineal wound assessment? Perspectives of midwives and women (Active)
Geeta Lamichhane, From Interruption to Achievement : The Stories of Returning Nursing Students (Active)
Kirsten Bickford, Ways of Speaking: A qualitative, narrative exploration of how women with endometriosis make sense of not feeling listened to (Active)
Abeer Al Moukdad, Understanding the experiences of refugee women and asylum seekers post
caesarean (Active)

Research

Has focussed on causes of infertility, reproductive failure and fertility treatments themselves. My PhD was an ethnographic study of infertile couples as they sought medical assistance in biological parenthood, often in IVF clinics. I have a clinical research background but am now more aligned with qualitative methodologies for investigating patient experiences. My current research interests include transitions to parenthood after

IVF, fertility and early pregnancy, and maternity care more widely, for example early postnatal care and parenthood.

Centres and institutes

Centre for Healthcare Research

Groups

Maternity Care (OxMater)

Projects

Fertility and Assisted Reproduction
Midwives’ perspectives of the impact of Covid-19 pandemic

Publications

Wishlade T, Mounce G, Allan H, Invisible labour: A qualitative exploration of the professional identity of interpreters working in UK maternity care settings
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine [online first] (2025) ISSN: 1363-4593 eISSN: 1461-7196 Invisible labour: A qualitative exploration of the professional identity of interpreters working in UK maternity care settings Open Access version on RADAR
Giusmin G, Mounce G, Schutz S, What are the experiences of women and midwives of non-severe perineal trauma assessment? A meta-synthesis
Midwifery 144 (2025) ISSN: 0266-6138 eISSN: 1532-3099 What are the experiences of women and midwives of non-severe perineal trauma assessment? A meta-synthesis Open Access version on RADAR
Mounce G, Greenway K, Brueton V, Aveyard H, Editorial- Approaches to Concept Clarification: Issues for Consideration
Journal of Advanced Nursing [online first] (2024) ISSN: 0309-2402 eISSN: 1365-2648 Editorial- Approaches to Concept Clarification: Issues for Consideration Open Access version on RADAR
Mounce G, Allan HT, Carey N, "Just have some IVF!": A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment
Sociology of Health & Illness 44 (2022) pp.308-327 ISSN: 0141-9889 eISSN: 1467-9566 "Just have some IVF!": A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment Open Access version on RADAR
Allan H, Mounce G, Culey L, van den Akker O, Hudson R, Transition to parenthood after successful non-donor in vitro fertilisation: The effects of infertility and in vitro fertilisation on previously infertile couples' experiences of early parenthood
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 25 (4) (2019) pp.434-453 ISSN: 1363-4593 eISSN: 1461-7196 Transition to parenthood after successful non-donor in vitro fertilisation: The effects of infertility and in vitro fertilisation on previously infertile couples' experiences of early parenthood Open Access version on RADAR
Allan HT, van den Akker O, Culley L, Mounce G, Odelius A, Symon A, An integrative literature review of psychosocial factors in the transition to parenthood following non-donor-assisted reproduction compared with spontaneously conceiving couples
Human Fertility 24 (4) (2019) pp.249-266 ISSN: 1464-7273 eISSN: 1742-8149 An integrative literature review of psychosocial factors in the transition to parenthood following non-donor-assisted reproduction compared with spontaneously conceiving couples Open Access version on RADAR
Rodriguez-Caro Helena , Dragovic Rebecca , Shen Mengni , Dombi Eszter , Mounce Ginny , Field Kate , Meadows Jamie , Turner Karen , Lunn Daniel , Child Tim , Southcombe Helen Jennifer , Granne Ingrid, In vitro decidualisation of human endometrial stromal cells is enhanced by seminal fluid extracellular vesicles
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 8 (1) (2019) ISSN: 2001-3078 eISSN: 2001-3078
Allan HT, Mounce G, Shawe J, Crespo E, Preconception care for infertile couples: nurses’ and midwives’ roles in promoting better maternal and birth outcomes
Journal of Clinical Nursing 27 (23/24) (2018) pp.4411-4418 ISSN: 0962-1067 eISSN: 1365-2702
Yeste M, Jones C, Amdani SN, Yelumalai S, Mounce G, da Silva SJ, Child T, Coward K., Does advancing male age influence the expression levels and localisation patterns of phospholipase C zeta (PLCζ) in human sperm?
Scientific Reports 6 (2016) ISSN: 2045-2322
Allan H, Mounce G, Managing infertility in primary care
Practice Nursing 26 (9) (2015) pp.440-443 ISSN: 0964-9271
Mounce G, McVeigh E, Turner K, Child TJ, Randomized, controlled pilot trial of natural versus hormone replacement therapy cycles in frozen embryo replacement in vitro fertilization
Fertility and Sterility 104 (4) (2015) pp.915-920 ISSN: 0015-0282
Mounce G, An overview of information giving in fertility clinics
Human Fertility 16 (1) (2013) pp.8-12 ISSN: 1464-7273

Allan HT, Mounce G, The Transition to Parenthood after IVF: An Introduction for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting ,
Routledge (2023) ISBN: 9781032139050

Carpenter J, Hunter L, Giusmin G, Mounce G, Baker K, Fleming S, Palles-Dimmock K, Smith C, Section 2: Reproduction and Fetal Development (2.1 Mitosis and Meiosis, 2.2. Genetics, genetic disorders and epigenetics, 2.3 Male and female reproductive systems, 2.4 Reproduction and embryology, 2.5 The placenta and developing fetus0.
in Jane Carpenter and Louise Hunter (ed.), The Anatomy and Physiology Textbook for Midwives, Routledge (2025) ISBN: 9781032130859
Mounce G, Emotion Work in Ethnography
in Helen T. Allan, Anne Arber (ed.), Emotion Work in Ethnography, Springer International Publishing (2017) ISBN: 9783319655024 eISBN: 9783319655031

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

Nursing and Midwifery Council
Higher Education Academy

Further details

Previously clinical research manager at the Nuffield Department of Women & Reproductive Heath, University of Oxford.

I maintain links with this department, including as internal examiner for the MSc Clinical Embryology course.