Dr Abbey Hyde
Senior Lecturer
Head of Teaching and Learning (Postgraduate Studies)
BSocSc, MSocSc, PhD, RGN

Contact Details:
School of Nursing & Midwifery, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4

Telephone: + 353 1 716 6415
Email: Abbey.Hyde@ucd.ie
Homepage: www.radeus.com/abbey

• 1983: RGN: St Laurence's Hospital, Dublin.
• 1987: BSocSc (Hons) (Sociology/Social Administration), National University of Ireland, Cork.
• 1988: MSocSc (Hons) (Sociology), National University of Ireland, Cork.
• 1996: PhD, Trinity College Dublin.

Teaching Interests

• Sociology of health and illness; gender and society; qualitative research methodologies; politics of reproduction; sexuality.

Research Interests

• Principal Investigator of a project entitled Sexual Health and Young People, funded by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, 2003-2004.
  
  
• Clinical decision-making. Co-applicant for the research programme entitled Nursing Decision Making; an Integrated Programme of Research to Maximise the Effectiveness of Clinical Nursing Resources. Funding: €1,000,000 over five years (2002-2007) from the Health Research Board Research Programme Grants. This project is being conducted with partners from the School of Nursing at Dublin City University.
  
  
• Politics of reproduction
  
  
• Young people's health behaviour

Selected Recent Publications

• Hyde, A., Treacy, M.M.(P), Scott, P. A.,MacNeela, P. et al  (accepted for publication August 05) Social regulation, medicalisation, and the nurse's role: insights from an analysis of nursing documentation.  International Journal of Nursing Studies.

   

• Hyde, A., Howlett, E., Brady, D. & Drennan, J. (accepted for publication August 05) Masculinities and young men's sex education needs in Ireland: problematising client-centred health promotion approaches. Health Promotion International.
  
  
• Fitzpatrick, L. & Hyde, A. (accepted for publication April '05) What characterizes 'the usual' preoperative education in clinical contexts? Nursing and Health Sciences.
  
  
•  Mac Neela P, Quinn, M., Scott, PA, Treacy, M, & Hyde, A. (accepted for publication April 05) Nursing Minimum Data Sets: A conceptual analysis and review.  Nursing Inquiry.
  
  
• Irving, K., Treacy, M., Scott, P.A., Hyde, A, Mac Neela, P., Butler, M., Drennan, J., Byrne, A., Henry, P., Corbally, M. & Morris R.  (Accepted for publication  April 05) Discursive practices in the documentation of patient assessments.  Journal of Advanced Nursing.
  
  
• Fitzpatrick, L. & Hyde, A.  (accepted for publication March '05) Nurse-related factors in the delivery of preoperative patient education. Journal of Clinical Nursing.
  
  
• Hyde, A., Howlett, E., Brady, D. & Drennan, J. (accepted for publication, Feb 05)  The focus group method: insights from  focus group interviews on sexual health with adolescents. Social Science and Medicine.
  
  
• Lavin, M. & Hyde A. (accepted for publication Jan 05)  Sexuality as an aspect of nursing care for women receiving chemotherapy for  breast cancer in an Irish context. European Journal of Oncology Nursing.
  
  
• O'Connor, A. & Hyde A. (in press) Teaching reflection to nursing students: a qualitative study in an Irish context. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 42(4).
  
  
• Hyde, A., Treacy, M.M.(P), Scott, P. A., Butler, M., Drennan, J., Irving, K., Byrne, A., MacNeela, P. & Hanrahan, M. (2005) Modes of rationality in nursing documentation: biology, biography and the voice of nursing. Nursing Inquiry, 12 (2) 66-77.
  
  
• Hyde, A. & Murray, M. (2005) Nurses' experiences of distance education. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 49(1), 87-95.
  
  
• Hyde, A. & Howlett, E. (2004) Understanding Teenage Sexuality in Ireland. Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency.
  
  

• Hyde, A., Lohan, M, & McDonnell, O. (2004) Sociology for Health Professionals in Ireland. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.
  
  

• Hyde A. & Roche-Reid, B. (2004) Midwifery practice and the crisis of modernity: implications for the role of the midwife. Social Science and Medicine, 58 (12) 2613-2623.
  
  

• Hyde, A. (2003) Resistance to male dominance in the social organisation of reproduction: the case of unmarried women during pregnancy and early motherhood. Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, 5, (1, 2), 5-19.
  
  

• Treacy, M. & Hyde, A. (2003) Developments in nursing in Ireland: the emergence of a disciplinary discourse. Journal of Professional Nursing, 19 (2), 91-98.
  
  

• O’Connor, A., Hyde, A., & Treacy, M. (2003) Nurse teachers’ constructions of reflection and reflective practice. Reflective Practice, 4 (2), 107-119.
  
  
• Brady, D. and Hyde A. (2002) Certificate trained staff nurses' perceptions of the changes in nursing education in Ireland from certificate to diploma level. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 33 (5), 1-7.
  
  
• Hyde A. and Brady, D. (2002) Staff nurses' perceptions of supernumerary status compared to rostered service for Diploma in Nursing students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 38 (6), 624-632.
  
  
• Hyde, A. Treacy, M., Boland, J., Whitaker, T. Santos Abaunza, P. & Knox, B. (2001) Alcohol consumption among 11-16 year olds: 'getting around' structural barriers? Nursing and Health Sciences, 3, 237-245.
  
  
• Surlis, S. and Hyde, A. (2001) HIV-positive patients' experiences of stigma during hospitalization. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 12 (6), 45-54.
  
  
• Hyde, A. Treacy, M. Whitaker, T. Santos Abaunza, P. & Knox, B. (2000) Young people's perceptions of and experiences with drugs: findings from an Irish study. Health Education Journal, 59, 180-188.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (2000) Age and partnership as public symbols: stigma and non-marital motherhood in an Irish context. The European Journal of Women's Studies, 7, 71-89.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (2000) Single pregnant women's encounters in public: changing norms or performing roles? Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 2 (2), 84-105.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (1999) Matrilocality and female power: single mothers in extended households. Women's Studies International Forum, 22 (6), 597-605.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (1999) Variations in contraceptive behaviour among unmarried Irish women In Lourdes F. Heber and Theresa George (eds) International Perspectives on Women, Health and Culture: A World-wide Anthology. Wiltshire: Mark Allen Publishing Group, 87-95.
  
  
• Hyde, A. and Treacy, M. (1999) Nurse education in the Republic of Ireland: negotiating a new educational space. In Brid Connolly and Anne B. Ryan (eds) Women and Education in Ireland. Maynooth: MACE Publications, 89-108.
  
  
• Treacy, M. and Hyde, A. (1999) Contextualising Irish nursing research. In Margaret Treacy and Abbey Hyde (eds) Nursing Research: Design and Practice. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 3-15.
  
  
• Hyde, A. and Treacy M. (1999) Ethical issues in research. In Margaret Treacy and Abbey Hyde (eds) Nursing Research: Design and Practice. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 93-109.
  
  
• Treacy, M. and Hyde, A. (eds) (1999) Nursing Research: Design and Practice. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (1998) From mutual pretense awareness to open awareness: single pregnant women's public encounters in an Irish context. Qualitative Health Research, 8, (5), 634-643.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (1997) Marriage and motherhood: The contradictory position of single mothers. Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, 2 (1), 22-36.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (1997). Gender differences in the responses of parents to their daughter's non-marital pregnancy. In Anne Byrne and Madeleine Leonard (eds), Women and Irish Society: A Sociological Reader. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, 282-295.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (1997) The medicalisation of childbearing norms: encounters between unmarried pregnant women and medical personnel in an Irish context. In Anne Cleary and Margaret Treacy (eds) The Sociology of Health and Illness in Ireland. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 115-127.
  
  
• Hyde, A. (1996) Unmarried pregnant women's accounts of their contraceptive practices: a qualitative analysis. Irish Journal of Sociology, 6, 179-211.