Nursing and Human Sciences
Research
Health4Life represents the evolving and vibrant inter-professional research portfolio of the School of Nursing and Human Sciences 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
- For further information, please see: Understanding and transforming practice leaflet
- To contact cluster leads: Dr Kate Irving and Dr Liam MacGabhann
- Psychosocial wellbeing
- For further information, please see: Psychosocial research cluster leaflet
- To contact cluster leads: Dr Gemma Kiernan, Dr Pamela Gallagher and Dr Veronica Lambert
- Population and global health
- For further information, please see: Population and Global health research leaflet
- To contact cluster leads: Dr Sabina Stan and Dr Anne Matthews
- Community Systems Strengthening for Equitable Maternal and Child Health (COSYST-MCH) Summary (DCU project team members Anne Matthews, Pamela Hussey, School of Nursing and Human Sciences)
- Health systems and processes
- For further information, please see: Health systems and processes cluster
- To contact cluster leads: Prof Anthony Staines and Dr Pamela Hussey
- The RN4CAST project in Ireland
- Translational Biosciences
- For further information, please contact : Dr Sandra O'Neill and Dr Rob O'Connor
- Academic Practice
- A critical perspective on evidence, practice and education
- Service user participation at all levels of inquiry
- Technological innovation and informatics
- 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
A number of cross-cutting strands are integral to all research activities within Health4Life. These include:
The Mission of Health4Life is to:
Informal enquiries relating to postgraduate research should be made to: kate.irving@dcu.ie
