Dr Virginia Stulz is a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of Newcastle.
Prior to this appointment, Dr Stulz spent 15 months at the University of Canberra as the Discipline Lead of Midwifery.
She worked in a conjoint position between Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District and Western Sydney University for six and a half years prior to this.

Dr Stulz has worked in NSW across four Local Health Districts on a major research project in an effort to improve student midwives’ experiences. From 2018 to 2022, Dr Stulz led a pilot randomised control trial across six hospitals in NSW on evaluating a peanut ball for women having an epidural during labour. She mentored and supported midwives in the local health district with their research projects. She collaborates with other university academics across Australia and New Zealand as a member of the Trans Tasman Midwifery Education Consortium (TTMEC) and worked as the Chair for the TTMEC from 2021 to 2022, and 2023 to 2024, and now currently, 2025 to 2026.

Dr Stulz is currently leading a national research project with the Trans Tasman Midwifery Education Consortium that explores characteristics of support within new graduate programmes within Australia and has led another national research project that focused on midwives’ experiences during COVID-19. In collaboration with other researchers, she has published 83 peer-reviewed journal articles since 2020 in areas of complementary therapies, midwifery education, factors affecting birth practices, gender-based and domestic and family violence and women’s health.

Dr Stulz is currently supervising three PhD research students as a primary supervisor and co-supervising four PhD students.