Nursing

Health4Life represents the evolving and vibrant inter-professional research portfolio of the School of Nursing at Dublin City University. It incorporates an exciting range of over-arching research topic clusters, each with a number of research programmes and embedded projects as follows:

• Understanding and transforming practice
• Psychosocial wellbeing
• Population and global health
• Health systems and processes

A number of cross-cutting strands are integral to all research activities within Health4Life. These include:

• Academic Practice
• A critical perspective on evidence, practice and education
• Service user participation at all levels of inquiry
• Technological innovation and informatics

The Mission of Health4Life is to:

• Conduct high quality, relevant and innovative research with clearly defined outputs
• Promote inter-professional and inter-organisational research
• Push the boundaries in research innovation
• Enhance meaningful links between research, theory and practice
• Promote quality training and support for researchers
• Inform policy development

Informal enquiries relating to postgraduate research should be made to: pamela.gallagher@dcu.ie
Current Postgraduate Research
Attend the 4th Annual Qualitative Research Summer School

Past Events

• Self, Selves and Sexuality Conference
• 3rd Qualitative Research Summer School
• European Academy of Nursing Science Doctoral summer school 23 June- 4 July 2008
• 2nd Qualitative Research Summer School Wednesday 4th June to Sunday 8th June 2008
• Other Conference information