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Prof Catherine McCabe of the School of Nursing & Midwifery is the Trinity lead in the Gravitate Health project which is a 5 year (€18,5 Million) international project launched by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) on November 16th 2020.

Three fully funded VisuAAL PhD scholarships are available at TCPHI in the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Two of the positions are in the scientific field of Health Psychology/Behavioural Science and one position is in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence. To apply, submit your application to https://www.visuaal-itn.eu/esr-vacancies stating the vacancy number by the deadline of 30th November 2020 at 23:59 (CET). Any questions about these PhD opportunities can be addressed to Dr John Dinsmore (dinsmorj@tcd.ie) or info@visuaal-itn.eu.

The School of Nursing and Midwifery is delighted to announce our PhD Scholarship Programme is now open for 2021. The programme offers both full-time and part-time funding options. Click here for further information

Congratulations to Yvonne Muldowney PhD student Trinity Centre Practice & Health Care Innovation, SNM, TCD, who has been awarded a Government of Ireland postgraduate Scholarship. This innovative work is focused on developing and integrating palliative care in the ICU setting in collaboration with Dr Eoin Tiernan, Consultant in Palliative care  SVH, under the supervision of Professor Anne-Marie Brady and Professor Peter May. Project: The development and testing of a protocol to integrate Palliative Care into Irish ICUs: A National Strategy Project

Congratulations Dr Mark Monahan who has just been elected as Vice Chair of Communication with the European Network for Training, Education and Research. The Mental Health Team are delighted to have Mark in this prestigious position. His election is testimony to his work in the area of mental health and his expertise in technologies of communication.

Congratulation to Prof Catherine Comiskey has been appointed Academic Director of the EU CHARM Project, by the Vice-Provost. This is a new role in the College, centred on an EU project, and working across five universities University of Barcelona, Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht University, Eotvos Lorand University Budapest and University of Montpellier). It will develop, run and evaluate a new EU-wide model for the Universities of the Future. It is a proof of concept role that also involves the development of a transdisciplinary model for a new Master Degree addressing the Sustainability Development Goals.

A new research project is being undertaken focusing on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ health concerns within pre-registration nursing and midwifery programmes. The research project is a collaboration between Queen’s University and Trinity College Dublin and is being led by Professor Michael Brown and Dr Edward McCann.

Congratulation to Vanessa Boland on the acceptance for publication in the European Journal of Oncology Nursing of her article The physical, psychological and social experiences of alopecia among women receiving chemotherapy: An integrative literature review. Authors: Vanessa Boland, Professor Anne-Marie Brady & Dr Amanda Drury. Published: September 28, 2020

Abstracts are invited under the conference theme Transforming Healthcare in a Changing World: New Ways of Thinking and Working in the following topic areas: 1. Maternal, child and family health, 2. Healthy ageing and intellectual disability, 3. Health innovation and integration: including chronic illness, patient and public involvement in research (PPI), digital health, population health 4. Mental health and recovery

In the year of the Nurse and Midwife we are delighted to announce the recipients of our first TCD School of Nursing and Midwifery PhD Scholarships as we begin our decade of building capacity in Nursing and Midwifery Research.