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Congratulations to Prof Mary McCarron and Michael Foley who have been successful in securing Phase 2 funding for the Ignite Office to provide services until 2025.Recognised as leaders in advancing meaningful public and patient involvement, the TCD Ignite Office will join the national network and lead out on efforts to improve the quality of approaches, as well as impact assessment over the next five years.  This funding award recognises Mary and Michael’s outstanding contributions to date and their focus on advancing meaningful opportunities for engagement and involvement.

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

THEconf is going virtual for March 2021! - This will give certainty to our delegates that the THEconf2021 will continue to provide a forum for academics, clinicians, researchers, policymakers and service-users to present and discuss their research, in a safe and accessible way.

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.

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