Steering Committee Members

Dr. Deirdre Daly

Professor In, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Deirdre teaches across all programmes, she is a lead researcher on the MAMMI study (https://www.tcd.ie/mammi) and a member of National committees on maternal morbidity and mortality.

Dr. Eilish Burke

Professor In, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Professor Joan Lalor

Professor of Maternal Health, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Professor Lalor has a particular interest in prenatal diagnosis and perinatal palliative care. More broadly her research interests include optimising maternity and health service delivery, health humanities, ethics and law

Professor Agnes Higgins

Professor in Mental Health, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Agnes leads a research team that focuses on service-user and family engagement in the development and reform of the mental health service. Central themes in her research are recovery, co-production, peer and rights based models

Dr. Louise Gallagher

Director of Midwifery Programmes & Head of Discipline of Midwifery/Assistant Professor in Midwifery

Louise is an academic and researcher with a diverse portfolio of research interests in midwifery and womens health. She teaches and supervises across the undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery programmes

Professor Mary Hughes

Professor In, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Mary is an Associate Professor and researcher, with expertise in Health and Wellbeing in Chronic Childhood Illness, adolescent health, asythma and development of mobile health technology

Dr. Eleanor Hollywood

Assistant Professor in Children’s Nursing

Eleanor lectures undergradute and postgraduate students and previously served as Head of Discipline in chrildrens Nursing for 4 years and Course Co-ordinator for Post-Graduate Specialist Nursing programmes for 1 year

Dr. Luciana Lolich

Research Impact Officer, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Luciana has an interdisciplinary background combining business and social sciences. She received her doctorate from UCD and her research and teaching focus is on complex societal challenges at the intersection of public policy and markets.

Ms. Síne Kenny

Communications & Marketing Officer, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Dr. Ekaterina Kozina

Research Projects Officer, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Ekaterina provides support to academic staff in the identification and development of research opportunities from research applications up to and including contract signature

Ms Ursula Nagle

Advanced Midwife Practitioner

Tara Durkin

Nora Vallajo

Advanced Midwifery Practitioner, Coombe Women and Infants Hospital

Emma Crosby

Advanced Midwifery Practitioner, Rotunda Hospital Dublin

Anne Kelly

Advanced Midwifery Practitioner, Portlaoise Midlands Hospital

Elizabeth Farsaci

Research Fellow, Centre for Health Policy and Management