Dr Sarah Buckley is trained as a GP with qualifications in GP-obstetrics. She has a special interest in the hormonal processes of physiological labour and birth and the impacts of maternity-care interventions and recently submitted her PhD thesis at the University of Queensland on Oxytocin in Childbirth.

Sarah’s PhD research, supervised by obstetric physician Professor Leonie Callaway, includes several systematic reviews of maternal and newborn plasma oxytocin levels in physiological birth and in birth with interventions. She has also been privileged to work during her PhD with European research colleagues and networks, including collaboration with in birth with interventions. She has also been privileged to work during her PhD with European research colleagues and networks, including collaboration with Swedish Emeritus Professor Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, global expert on oxytocin in reproduction and wellbeing.