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We hope that you will join us for this original devised theatre performance about labour and birth as experienced by two women. Developed and performed by Gráinne Curistan, Berlinda Mapa and Helen McGrath: directed by Gráinne Curistan.The performance is a production created as part of the European Researchers’ Night 2023 and inspired by the research carried out at the TCMCR. Each event will have a running time of approximately 35 minutes: 15 minute performance followed by a 20 minute panel discussion. To book your tickets via Eventbrite.

Our Colleague Assistant Professor Sunita Panda research is mentioned in journal.ie about maternity choice in Ireland. Dr Panda researched C-sections in 1st time Mothers, examining hospital records over 2700 women.

Prof Valerie Smith is delighted to present the HRB-TMRN-funded TRAIN report. The aim of TRAIN was to develop and assess the acceptability of an education and training intervention for recruiters to neonatal trials. The project aim was achieved in three sequential phases. These were i) evidence syntheses (systematic review, content analysis, concept analysis), ii) intervention development (co-design/co-creation workshops), and iii) intervention pilot and acceptability testing.

Clinicians’ perspectives of the reasons for performing caesarean section (CS) are fundamental to deepening knowledge and understanding of factors influencing decision-making for CS. The aim of this study was to explore midwives’ and obstetricians’ views of factors influencing decision-making for CS for first-time mothers

A study, carried out by Professor Valerie Smith from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at a Dublin maternity hospital, found overall isolation and loneliness were common but some changes were beneficial. Click here to read more

Pandemic leads to increased interest in nursing and midwifery education. WHO estimates global shortage of nurses to be 5.9 million

The School of Nursing and Midwifery would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Midwifery students who were awarded Foundation Scholarship today on Trinity Monday.

We am delighted to announce the recipients of our 2021 TCD School of Nursing and Midwifery PhD Scholarships and  our TCD Ussher and 1252 Studentships. This year we awarded nine scholarships four  Full-Time Scholarships and five Part-Time Scholarships. The Successful awardees are currently working across  hospital and community settings. Congratulations to Silvia Alós Pereñiguez who has been awarded this prestigious Scholarship. The School would like to take the opportunity to wish her and her supervisor Dr Deirdre Daly every success with the project entitled Intrapartum syntocinon administration among women with spontaneous onset of labour.