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Women, Child and Family Health
Our aim is to strengthen and build research capacity within the area of women’s and children's health and to enhance the health & wellbeing of women, children and their families through the conduct of ethical research.
We will undertake research in partnership with key stakeholders which has a positive impact on women and children’s’ health and contribute to the knowledge development which informs practice.
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Principal Investigator Research Income
| Title | Funder | Research Team |
|---|---|---|
| An educational video intervention to foster and promote positive attitudes to mental health among health care professionals. | Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region. |
Maria Noonan, Maria Gibbons HSE lead. Teresa Tuohy, AnnMarie Grealish, Louise Murphy, Sylvia Murphy, Carmel Bradshaw, Sandra Atkinson, Kevin Johnson. |
| Public Health Nurse (PHN) led identification and response to domestic abuse in the postnatal period – A Pilot Study to assess PHN training to recognise and respond to domestic violence, | Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region |
Sylvia Tighe Murphy, Maria Noonan and Carmel Bradshaw in collaboration with Mary Shanahan, Marie Boyle and Brenda Mellett |
| Co-design, development and evaluation of a care pathway to promote, maintain and enhance breastfeeding experience in the Neonatal Unit. | Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit. Mid-West Region |
Maria Noonan and Una Dee HSE lead. Sylvia Tighe Murphy, Carmel Bradshaw and Jan McCarthy. |
Co-Applicant Research Activities
| Title | Funder | Research Team |
|---|---|---|
| COST application: The DEVoTiON (DEliVery-related Trauma Outcomes Network) is a COST Action designed to bring together researchers and clinicians from diverse fields. The goal is to maximise the impact of research in birth trauma and PTSD in childbirth in | COST application |
PI Prof Joan Lalor, TCD. Dr Sylvia Tighe Murphy |
| Quality Care-Metrics: An independent evaluation study to determine the impact of measuring nursing and midwifery-sensitive process metrics and indicators using Quality Care-Metrics (HSE10990) | HSE |
PI Professor Laserina O’Connor UCD. Cluster members: Maria Noonan, Carmel Bradshaw, Sylvia Murphy, Sandra Atkinson |
| Inter-disciplinary and inter-agency group, involving seven academic disciplines, a leading NGO for migrants, the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the WHO to draw on the tradition of participatory health research to disrupt this pattern of exclusion. | HRI emerging Cluster Capacity Building Award |
Helen Phelan, Anne MacFarlane, Sylvia Murphy Tighe, TrÃona McCaffrey, Hilary Moss, Susann Huschke, Maebh Barry and Leonie Kerins. |
Past Projects
| Title | Amount | Funder | Research Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying research questions to identify local interventions in the Mid-West Region to support breastfeeding initiation and duration. | €9,574.25 | Nursing & Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region |
Una Dee, Margaret Hynes, Maria O'Dwyer, Sinéad O'Doherty, Audrey Lyons, Deirdre Monroe, Fiona Murphy, Maria Noonan, Janet Calvert |
| ESTHER Common Grant application | €7,814 | ESTHER |
K. Elmusharaf, P. Finucane, K. Hadfield, D. Leddin, Fiona Murphy, C. Sheehan |
| UL International Activity Challenge Fund | €3,200 | University of 51±¾É«. International activity challenge. |
Sylvia Murphy-Tighe |
| Positive social & economic ageing. | €5,000 | 51±¾É«. International activity challenge. |
Jill Murphy, Pauline O'Reilly, Fiona Murphy, Donna Wilson, Gail Low |
| QCM Nursing & Midwifery Quality Care-Metrics Project (Older Person and Intellectual Disability Services) | €92,172.26 | HSE/ONMSD |
Fiona Murphy, Owen Doody, Rosemary Lyons |
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Health Sciences Building, North Bank Campus, 51±¾É«
Email: nm@ul.ie