COST Action CA1821 Claudia Limmer, Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc. Midwifery

Name, title and letters: Claudia Limmer, Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc. Midwifery


Who I am and current role:

Community midwife in Berlin, Germany/ Lecturer in the midwifery B.Sc. program at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin (Evangelische Hochschule Berlin, EHB)/Research assistant in the Erasmus+ funded program “Empathy in health care”.

Research expertise:

Development and psychometric validation of a German self-report tool measuring disrespect and abuse during childbirth (publication in preparation).


University location: Evangelische Hochschule Berlin (EHB), Germany


Email: limmer@lb.eh-berlin.declaudialimmer@t-online.de


Phone:  +49 151 15245080


Research keywords: respectful maternity care, disrespect and abuse, obstetric violence, postpartum PTSD, traumatic childbirth, scale development, midwives, empathy