Current Research Students

PhD Student Profiles

	Name	Thesis Title	Supervisors
	Kate Arkley	A constructivist grounded theory study exploring patients’ experience of painful leg ulcer management.	Dr Maura Dowling and Dr Elaine Keane
	Orlaith Cormican	Exploring Psychosocial vulnerability in informal carers of patients with Chronic Haematological Malignancies.	Dr Maura Dowling and Dr Siobhan Glavey
	Teresa Donnelly-Nairn	Understanding the stressful environment: A case study in an acute hospital in Ireland.	Dr Catherine Houghton and Professor Dympna Casey
	Aisling Flynn	Creating a multi-user VR social connecting space for older people with dementia.	Professor Dympna Casey
	Vivien Hanrahan	Exploring recruiters’ experiences of recruiting women to trials during pregnancy and childbirth.	Dr Linda Biesty and Dr Katie Gillies
	Orlaith Hernon	Use of teaching and learning technologies in nurse education.	Dr Peter Carr, Dr Iain Mac Labhrainn, Dr Edel McSharry
	John Ivory	The reliability and diagnostic validity of clinical manifestations of biofilm in venous leg ulcers.	Dr Georgina Gethin and Professor James O'Gara
‌	Justin Kerr	Do clinical practice guidelines improve patient safety.	Dr Georgina Gethin and Professor Declan Devane
	Wei Qi Koh	Implementation strategies for the use of social robotics in the context of dementia.	Professor Dympna Casey
	Deirdre Mulligan	A Case Study to explore how does the explicit delegation of tasks by registered nurses to health care assistants occur in patient care teams in Older Peoples Services.	Professor Dympna Casey
	Enda Naughten	Implementing the model of care for the diabetic foot in community nursing services.	Dr Georgina Gethin and Dr Martina Giltenane
	Fiona Quirke	COHESION: Core Outcomes in Neonatal Encephalopathy.	Professor Declan Devane, Dr Patricia Healy and Dr Linda Biesty

MPhil and MSC Research Student Profiles

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