Jenny Carter is a midwife and Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London. She has many years’ experience supporting and leading high quality clinical research in various aspects of pregnancy care and women’s health.  Now focusing on preterm birth, she established a novel preterm birth studies patient and public involvement panel.  Her PhD work was supported by an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship and resulted in a KCL Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize.  She is a founder member of the UK Preterm Clinical Network and led the development of, and continues to manage, the Preterm Clinical Network (PCN) Database (www.medscinet.net/ukpcn).  She is a member of the RCOG Preterm Birth Clinical Study Group and has served as an expert advisor for the NICE Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme.  Her portfolio of work includes research supported by the Tommy’s National Centre for Preterm Birth Research and the Tommy’s National Centre for Maternity Improvement.