Dr Nicole Borg Cunen earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Midwifery from the University of Malta (2005–2009), an M.Sc. in Advanced Professional Practice (with Distinction) from Queen’s University Belfast (2012), and a Ph.D. from the University of Hull (2021). Her doctoral thesis - Parents’ Experiences of Conceptualising and Relating to their Unborn Child: A Constructivist Grounded Theory - explored how first-time expectant parents envisage and relate to the unborn child.
Dr Borg Cunen joined the Department of Midwifery at the University of Malta as a full-time resident Assistant Lecturer in 2013 and was promoted to Lecturer in 2021. She delivers core midwifery modules and supervises dissertations across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
After qualifying as a registered Midwife in 2009, she joined the Department of Health and currently works part-time as a Senior Midwife at Mater Dei Hospital.
