Dr Kathleen Baird is a Professor of Midwifery and Head of School Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor Baird has a wealth of clinical and academic experience both in the United Kingdom and Australia. She has a strong track record in learning and teaching and is a consistent advocate for teaching excellence and innovation in education. She is an active researcher and today, her main research areas are models of midwifery care, perinatal mental health, birth trauma and family and domestic violence, this interest has led to researching the effect of other social factors of vulnerability, and research with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities. In view of her research expertise in domestic violence from 2016 – 2023 she was the Deputy Chair for the Queensland Death and Homicide Review Board and a member of the Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Implementation Council from 2016 – 2022. Currently Professor Baird is an executive member of the Australasian Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Trials Network and Co-Assistant Secretary General Global Network of WHO CC for Nursing and Midwifery and is an Executive member of the Council of Deans Nursing and Midwifery and Chair of the Midwifery Advisory Group, Council of Deans Nursing and Midwifery.