Oxford-based Peripear has secured an Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award and a £74,974 grant for its development of a wearable device designed to prevent perineal trauma during labour. Nina van Schaick, co-founder and COO of Peripear as well as a midwife who trained at Oxford Brookes, said: "I'm sure I wasn't the only one to see this gap. Peripear is developing what it describes as the world's first automated perineal thermotherapy wearable, designed to prevent perineal trauma during childbirth. A perineal thermotherapy wearable is an emerging medical device. Ms van Schaick added: "I'm a farmer's granddaughter, and when I started practising over 14 years ago, I asked: where is the tool I need to implement this evidence?