Research
Welcome to the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems Research and Innovation page.
One of the core functions of the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems is to develop new knowledge for the disciplines of nursing and midwifery, to transmit that knowledge to students and to the wider profession and to enable and support knowledge transfer in practice. Research, scholarship and innovation are the principal means for achieving this core function and the School is committed to bringing knowledge to bear on clinical practice and professional policy by transmitting new knowledge through teaching and publications and by translational efforts. Academics and research support staff at the School are conducting research and scholarship of the highest international quality and have published in some of the top-ranked international journals within and beyond the disciplines of nursing and midwifery. Researchers at the School have undertaken a number of national studies on the development of the nursing and midwifery resource that are informing nursing and midwifery practice, research and policy, including healthcare policy and planning and professional education and training.
Research activity at the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems is currently focused on five research clusters, namely: (i) Old People - Health & Social Care, (ii) Maternal and Child Health, (iii) Applied, Transational & Clinical Sciences, (iv) Health Systems and (v) Nursing & Midwifery History. In addition, programmatic research is concentrated in the School’s two academic centres, the National Centre for the Protection of Older People and the UCD Irish Centre for Nursing & Midwifery History. A key role of the School’s research and innovation function is to train the next generation of researchers, academics and senior clinicians. The School provides opportunities for graduate research training to master’s and doctoral levels in association with its major research clusters, or in association with its two academic centres, and also welcomes prospective students with their own ideas and topics for graduate research.
The UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems is playing its full part in advancing UCD’s vision of becoming a major contributor to the creation, development, dissemination, interpretation, and application of new knowledge in the 21st century, and advancing the University’s international reputation for excellent research and innovation.
Professor Gerard M. Fealy
Head of Research & Innovation