Our Programmes are designed to educate
Women, Child & Family Health
Women, Child & Family Health
Contact Details
Dr Sandra Atkinson
Department of Nursing & Midwifery
Health Science Building
University of Limerick
Ireland
V94 X5K6
Email: sandra.atkinson@ul.ie
Group Members
Cluster Lead: Dr Sandra Atkinson (see profile link here)
Projects |
Amount |
Funding Source |
Start/Finish Dates |
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Erasmus + Knowledge alliance to enhance nursing research/NR-Alliance. European partners; Maribor, Limerick, Spain and Italy. Project leads Angela Boskin Jesenice, Slovenia. Fiona Murphy, Alice Coffey, Liz Kingston. |
€979,980 €147,453 to UL |
Erasmus+. E+KA2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices |
November 2018- November 2021 |
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Inter-disciplinary and inter-agency group, involving seven academic disciplines, a leading NGO for migrants, the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the WHO to draw on the tradition of participatory health research to disrupt this pattern of exclusion. Helen Phelan, Anne MacFarlane, Sylvia Murphy Tighe, Tríona McCaffrey, Hilary Moss, Susann Huschke, Maebh Barry and Leonie Kerins. |
€100,000 |
HRI emerging Cluster Capacity Building Award |
March 2019 |
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Co-design, development and evaluation of a care pathway to promote, maintain and enhance breastfeeding experience in the Neonatal Unit. Maria Noonan UL and Una Dee HSE Lead. |
€10,000 |
Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region |
April 2019 |
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Public Health Nurse (PHN) led identification and response to domestic abuse in the postnatal period – A Pilot Study to assess PHN training to recognise and respond to domestic violence. Sylvia Tighe Murphy, Maria Noonan and Carmel Bradshaw in collaboration with Mary Shanahan, Marie Boyle and Brenda Mellett |
€9,500
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Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region |
April 2019 |
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Quality Care-Metrics: An independent evaluation study to determine the impact of measuring nursing and midwifery-sensitive process metrics and indicators using Quality Care-Metrics (HSE10990). PI Professor Laserina O’Connor UCD. Cluster members: Maria Noonan, Carmel Bradshaw, Sylvia Murphy, Fiona Murphy, Sandra Atkinson. |
HSE |
to be confirmed | |
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An educational video intervention to foster and promote positive attitudes to mental health among health care professionals. Maria Noonan, Maria Gibbons HSE lead. Teresa Tuohy, Annmarie Grealish, Louise Murphy, Sylvia Murphy, Carmel Bradshaw, Sandra Atkinson and Kevin Johnson. (In conjunction with members from the Ageing, Mental Health & Intellectual Disability Cluster) |
€9,752.54
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Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region
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April 2019 |
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Introducing Simulation Technology to Undergraduate Nursing and Midwifery Education: A Scoping Initiative (to support students transitioning to internship) Dr Liz Kingston, Dr Louise Murphy, Dr Kathleen Markey. Team members (Midwifery): Dr. Sandra Atkinson; Clinical Collaborator: Bernadette Tolan (UMHL) |
Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement
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Oct 2019 |
Project |
Amount |
Funding Source |
Start/Finish Dates |
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QCM Nursing & Midwifery Quality Care-Metrics Project (Older Person and Intellectual Disability Services) Fiona Murphy, Owen Doody, Rosemary Lyons |
€92,172.26 |
HSE/ONMSD |
September 2016-March 2018. Completed. |
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Positive social & economic ageing. Jill Murphy, Pauline O'Reilly, Fiona Murphy, Donna Wilson, Gail Low |
€5,000 | University of Limerick. International activity challenge. |
September 2017-September 2018. Completed.
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UL International Activity Challenge Fund. Sylvia Murphy-Tighe |
€3,200 | University of Limerick. International activity challenge. |
September 2017-September 2018. Completed. |
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ESTHER Common Grant application. K. Elmusharaf, P. Finucane, K. Hadfield, D. Leddin, Fiona Murphy, C. Sheehan |
€7,814 | ESTHER | September 2016. Completed |
| Identifying research questions to identify local interventions in the Mid-West Region to support breastfeeding initiation and duration. Una Dee, Margaret Hynes, Maria O'Dwyer, Sinéad O'Doherty, Audrey Lyons, Deirdre Monroe, Fiona Murphy, Maria Noonan, Janet Calvert | €9,574.25 | Nursing & Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region | September 2016-November 2017. Completed |
Research students
Sarah Watkins (sPhD). An Appreciative Inquiry exploring the experiences of older people with dementia and their family members (carers) in the emergency department (ED). Supervisors: Professor Fiona Murphy, Dr Margaret Graham, Professor Catriona Kennedy RGU. UK, Professor Belinda Dewar UWS, UK.
Daniel Newman (sPhD). Service-users and Healthcare Professionals Experiences of Communication and Building Relationships in a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT): A Qualitative Case Study. Supervisors: Professor Fiona Murphy, Dr Pauline O’Reilly, Professor Catriona Kennedy RGU. UK., Dr Siew Lee, RGU. UK.
Louise Barry (sPhD). An interpretive phenomenological study exploring women’s lived experience of pregnancy with a chronic illness. Commenced February 2018. Supervisors: Dr Pauline Meskell. Dr Sylvia Tighe Murphy.