Maternity mentoring toolkit: accelerating impact of philosophical and psychological research to improve perinatal employee support and communication (MaMeT) project report

Abstract

The key focus of this project was knowledge transfer between researchers in philosophy and psychology and bump & glide Ltd., a local company that offers maternity mentoring for businesses and individuals.

Already-existing underlying research was used to enhance bump & glide’s maternity mentoring toolkits. The resulting research-based toolkit was then field-tested using semi-structured interviews with an intervention group of mothers who received maternity mentoring using the toolkit and a non-intervention group of mothers who had not received any formal maternity mentoring. The field test aimed to explore the role of formal maternity mentoring in new mothers’ experiences and understandings of the personal and professional transitions they undergo during their child’s first year of life.

The results of the project show that targeted maternity mentoring can help employees navigate the challenges of new parenthood and productively return to work at the end of maternity leave. They also provide insight into how employers can improve the wellbeing, resilience, and work-readiness of employees returning from maternity leave.

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ORCID for Fiona Woollard: orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-3379

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