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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

The School of Nursing and Midwifery

Prof Kevin Brazil

Professor in Palliative Care
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Health services research
  • Palliative care
  • Chronic illness
  • Cancer care
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Prof Christine Brown Wilson

Professor in Education
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Participatory, qualitative methods
  • Dementia
  • Older people
  • Engaged research
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Dr Gillian Carter

Senior Lecturer in Chronic Illness
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Support for people with Parkinson's and Dementia
  • Neurodegenerative disease
  • Public knowledge of Parkinson's and Dementia
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Dr Julie Doherty

Lecturer
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Well-being across the lifecourse
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Dr Clare McVeigh

Senior Lecturer
Areas of Research Excellence
  • End of life and palliative care
  • Mindfulness and other mental health interventions
  • Education programmes in digital innovation in nursing
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Dr Gary Mitchell MBE

Reader in Education
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Older people living with chronic conditions
  • Optimising nursing practice
  • Knowledge translation
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Dr Peter O'Halloran

Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Clinical pathways for chronic disease
  • End of life care
  • Models of good practice
  • Complex interventions
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Dr Patrick Stark

Lecturer
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Improving community nurses' knowledge of oral health
  • Reducing restrictive practices in care homes
  • Dementia education programmes
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Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

The School of Psychology

Prof Richard Carson

Professor of Cognitive Ageing
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Age-related cognitive and behavioural dysfuction
  • Adaptive brain plasticity
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Prof Martin Dempster

Professor of Health Psychology
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Psychological predictors of well-being
  • Quality of life
  • Illness and sick-role behaviours
  • Health-related quality of life
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Dr Matthew Rodger

Senior Lecturer
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Auditory processing in Parkinson's Disease
  • Rehabilitation
  • Skill acquisition in music
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Dr Kathy Ruddy

Senior Lecturer
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Motor control
  • Neural plasticity
  • Sensorimotor integration
  • Brain-computer interface
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Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

The School of Natural and Built Environment

Prof Gemma Catney

Professor of Human Geography
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Population geography
  • Geographies of diversity
  • Social-spatial inequality
  • Quantitative social science
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Prof Geraint Ellis

Professor in Environmental Planning
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Spatial planning and sustainability
  • Environmental governance
  • Walkability of built environments
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Dr Sara Fergusen

Research Fellow, Environmental Planning & Public Health
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Ageing in rural areas
  • Quality of life
  • Rural communities
  • Rural policy
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Prof Brendan Murtagh

Professor of Urban Planning
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Planning theory
  • Spatial planning practice
  • Urban regeneration
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Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

The School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Dr Paul Best

Reader (Associate Professor)
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Digital mental health
  • Dementia care
  • Participatory data analysis and physical activity
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Dr Paula Devine

Senior Social Survey Officer
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Men's health
  • Quantitative methods
  • Chronic illness
  • Dissemination of social science information
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Prof Joe Duffy

Professor of Social Work
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Service users
  • Political conflict
  • Trauma
  • Epistemology
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Prof Lorna Montgomery

Professor
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Adult safeguarding
  • Bereavement
  • Older people and mental health
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Dr Yecid Ortega

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Older adults
  • Extreme metal adults
  • Sociolinguistics and arts-based methods
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Prof Audrey Roulston

Professor of Social Work in Palliative Care
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Life-limiting illnesses
  • Informal and formal carers
  • Advance care planning
  • End of life care decision-making
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Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

The School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Sian Barber

Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studiesr
Areas of Research Excellence
  • British cinema
  • Controversies and censorship
  • Archives
  • Ageing on screen
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Dr Elena Caoduro

Lecturer in Media Analysis
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Mediation of terrorism and political violence
  • Cultural memory and nostalgia studies
  • Older women characters on TV
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Dr Shonagh Hill

Research Fellow
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Generations and Feminism
  • Older women in Ireland
  • Feminist histories in Ireland
  • Practice as research

Dr Jane Lugea

Senior Lecturer in English Language and Stylistics
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Dementia fiction
  • Language use and linguistic creativity
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • Readers with dementia
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Prof Steven Wilson

Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Medical humanities
  • Disease in literature
  • Illness, pain and death in literature
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