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Staff Profile

  • Prior to becoming a midwife and academic, Dr Pendleton graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1995 with a Joint Honours degree in French and Spanish.  He then spent nine years working for BBC Television,  becoming a producer and director on a wide variety of documentaries including co-productions with the Open University.  After initially working on a high-risk consultant-led unit, he spent the majority of his clinical midwifery career as a community midwife.  He joined the University of Northampton as a Lecturer and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2014. He completed his MSc in Practice Education and was registered as a Midwifery Teacher with the Nursing & Midwifery Council in 2016.  In 2019 he was  seconded to the NMC Test of Competence Centre as Lead for Academic Development & Quality. He was awarded his PhD in 2024.

    In addition to facilitating teaching and learning within the Faculty of Health, Education and Society he is a member of the Faculty Research Ethics Committee. He represents the university in Europe as a member of the Florence Network and has been a visiting lecturer in midwifery and public health at Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.  Since 2023 he has held an Honorary Research Fellowship at Coventry University.

  • John delivers teaching across all  modules on the midwifery undergraduate curriculum.  He leads on Cultural Competence in Midwifery in year 2 and the dissertation module in year 3.

  • For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view John Pendleton’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.