Sally Baddock
Sally Anne Baddock is a New Zealand academic in the field of midwifery, and is a professor in the School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic.
Academic career
Baddock completed a PhD titled Bedsharing vs cot-sleeping: an investigation of the physiology and behaviour of infants in the home setting in 2004 at the University of Otago.Baddock's research focuses on infant behaviour and physiology during sleep and the impact of sleep practices on sudden unexpected death in infancy. She has studied the benefits and risks of bed-sharing between infants and adults and participated in four major studies on infant sleep.
Baddock is a reviewer for the New Zealand College of Midwives Journal. She served as associate head of the School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic for seven years.