Portsmouth midwifery campus

Take a look around our facilities by using our Virtual Tour.

Portsmouth campus facilities include:

• Hospital setting simulation suite
• Lecture theatre and seminar rooms
• PC Lab
• Wi-Fi
• Hospital restaurant, shop and vending machines, including a seating area
• Library facilities: BU has invested in e-books for midwifery students which can be accessed remotely.   

The Portsmouth St Mary’s campus is not a BU owned teaching base. If for any reason we are unable to continue to deliver teaching from St Mary’s we will need to transfer the teaching to an alternative location.

We host a number of open afternoons for those who are interested in Midwifery and expect to study at our campus in Portsmouth.

At these events you have the opportunity to:

• Meet our academic staff who will provide you with information about the course and how it runs in Portsmouth, as well as share top tips for your application form.
• ​Meet a member of our administrative staff who can answer your questions about entry requirements and the application process.
• ​Speak to current students and look around our learning facilities and practice skills labs.

Event dates will be advertised here, where you can also register to attend.

Address

St Mary’s Community Health Campus, Milton Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 6AD

Parking

Car parking is available on site and costs £9 per day or there is parking available within the local area

Bus

Bus services 2, 17 and 19 stop outside the campus. The number 21 also stops a 5-minute walk away

Train

The nearest railway station is Fratton, which is on the London, Brighton and Southampton mail lines. The station is a 20-minute walk from the campus.

The majority of your teaching will be based in the Portsmouth campus but there may be times when you will also need to attend units at the two main BU campuses in Bournemouth. These dates are highlighted at the beginning of each academic year.

At Bournemouth University, we do not have dedicated accommodation at the Portsmouth campus, therefore you will need to book your accommodation in the private sector. Click here to look at the list of private halls of residence in Portsmouth that you contact directly to check for availability.   

All these private halls of residence are signed up to The National Code, which is a government-approved code of standards that requires all private operators to manage and operate the accommodation to a high standard. Find out more about The National Code here.

Alternatively, you can email the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth to find out if they have any availability in their accommodation. Please note, that this is NHS (National Health Service) accommodation, which is not affiliated with Bournemouth University.  

You can also conduct your own search for private rent accommodation using the following postcodes that are in the locality of the hospital: 

• PO6 3LY for Queen Alexandra 
• PO3 6AD for St Mary’s 

If you are searching for private accommodation then don’t forget to use our useful BU’s HomeFinders Checklist.

As a student studying at our Portsmouth campus, you will undertake placements in Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight or Winchester.

Your first placement will typically be in the community or a birth centre. Other clinical experience will include neonatal care, gynaecology and theatre and throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to organise a number of visits to areas/organisations of interest to you, in relation to public health. When on placement you will experience the full 24-hour shift pattern to include 12-13 hour shifts, weekends and night shifts.

For further information about placements please visit the BSc (Hons) Midwifery course page.

When applying through UCAS you will have two options to choose from, either our Portsmouth: St Mary's Community Health Campus or our Main Site, which is our Bournemouth Lansdowne campus.

You will need the following codes and information for your application to select to study at the Portsmouth campus: 

• Course code: B720
• Institution code: B50
• Campus name: Portsmouth: St. Mary's Community Health Campus
• Campus code: M

Please only make one application for either our Bournemouth (main site) or Portsmouth campus. You should not make an application for both.

Please note that the Portsmouth St Mary’s campus is not a BU owned teaching base. If for any reason we are unable to continue to deliver teaching from St Mary’s we will need to transfer the teaching to an alternative location.

Jane has been a practicing midwife for 30 years. The majority of this practice has centred in the community due to a passion for enabling women to experience normal birth and holistic care.

Her scholarship in education is linked with student caseloading and she has lead and assisted with the student caseloading project at Bournemouth University which has attracted national and international interest and has resulted in a number of commissioned publications and conferences. This interest and scholarship is linked to her belief that students can truly learn to appreciate and promote woman-centred care through such an educational initiative, she also regularly caseloads women in her local practice area.

Her scholarship in practice is focused on the provision of woman centred care and promotion of salutogenesis, holism and normality of birth. Her research interests and publication areas of physiological birth and intuition as an authoritative form of knowledge reflect these ideals. Her methodological scholarship is centred in phenomenology.

Juliet has a wide variety of clinical experience in hospital, community, midwifery-led and independent team midwifery both in the UK and in South Africa where she also lectured at the University of Cape Town.

She was a lead researcher on a large-scale randomised controlled trial on the management of the third stage of labour and her PhD was a discourse analysis of blood loss in normal childbirth. She is particularly interested in maintaining normality in maternity care, promoting continuity of care and thinking about midwifery from an international perspective.

Denyse is a registered midwifery lecturer teaching midwifery two days per week, and a registered public health practitioner, working two days per week for her local Public Health Department.

She is currently researching the effectiveness of MaCO as a learning experience from learners ranging from nursery nurses through healthcare students, and qualified professionals such as school nurses, health visitors, midwives and GPs.