Izzy is a Clinical Research Midwife at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, where she delivers a portfolio of maternity research studies and clinical trials. Izzy continues to practise as a midwife, primarily caring for people experiencing high-risk pregnancies in the antenatal period. She has a particular interest in improving care pathways and outcomes for pregnant and birthing people from racialised communities experiencing preterm and threatened preterm labour, with the aim of addressing racial disparities in maternal and neonatal health. Izzy has an academic background in religion, philosophy and ethics. This informs her interdisciplinary approach to both clinical practice and research. Izzy employs creative and arts-based approaches, including poetic inquiry and film. Her current research explores how clinical practice, consent protocols and the use of obstetric technologies such as the speculum examination are shaped by racialisation and social stratification. The project seeks to develop a poetic discourse on preterm labour, culminating in the production of an original poem and accompanying film that illuminate the embodied, emotional and political dimensions of preterm birth for pregnant and birthing people from racialised communities.