Prof Veronica Lambert
Nursing and Human Sciences
| Name: | Prof Veronica Lambert |
| Department: | Nursing and Human Sciences |
| Role: | Academic Staff - Children and Family Nursing |
| Secondary Work Area: | DCU PPI Ignite |
| Secondary Role: | Principal Investigator |
| Phone Number: | 01 700 7161 |
| Email Address: | veronica.lambert@dcu.ie |
| Room: | H213 |
| Campus: | DCU Glasnevin Campus |
Biographical Details
Prof. Veronica Lambert is Full Professor of Children and Family Nursing at the School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University. She is a Registered Childrens (RCN) and General (RGN) Nurse and completed her BNS (Hons) degree and PhD (2009) at the School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Trinity College Dublin. In Sept 2012, she was presented with the Jozien Bensing Award for talented early career research from the European (now International) Association for Communication in Healthcare (https://www.each.eu/). Veronica’s research focuses on understanding children and family experiences particularly in the context of children and family health care communication, children and family shared self-management for long-term conditions, psychosocial wellbeing and impact of illness on children and the family, patient safety culture including paediatric early warning systems and public and patient involvement (PPI) in health care and research. Veronica is the Health Research Board PPI Ignite Lead for DCU. She also has a particular interest in influencing clinical research capacity building in children's nursing. Veronica serves as Executive Board member, and Irish lead, of the First Global IFNA Chapter - the UK and Ireland Chapter of Family Nursing; and she has been elected to the Board of Directors of the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA; https://internationalfamilynursing.org/) commencing office in August 2019.