Research
Within the School of Nursing and Midwifery our area of strength is health innovation through co-design and rigorous evaluation of health promoting and healthcare interventions with policymakers, practice partners, patients and carers. Within the School we have two core (Maternal and Child Health; Chronic Illness and Palliative Care) and one emerging (Education and Practice) innovative research themes, which encapsulate lifespan health research from conception to end-of-life.
RESEARCH AREAS
in the UK for organisation and management (Children's Nursing)
NSS 2023in the UK for Career Prospects for Midwifery
Guardian University Guide 2024in the UK for research quality in Nursing
Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024- Our research is funded from the European Commission under Interreg and Horizon 2020, large charities such as Alzheimer’s Society, Dunhill Trust, Marie Curie, Movember Cancer Research United Kingdom, Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke as well as the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Newton Fund, the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), and the Health and Social Care, Research and Development Division, Public Health Agency (PHA) of Northern Ireland.
- The success of our research depends on the meaningful and long-term partnerships we have developed with a range of key stakeholders, including practice and patient public involvement. In continuing to work with our key stakeholders at all stages of the research process we aim to ensure that the research conducted within the School is relevant and will lead to changes that improve healthcare outcomes for our society.
Professor Joanne Reid, Director of Research
‘The lived experience of nurses during covid-19’: A collaborative project between QUB and RCN NI
8th February 2024 4-6pm
To record the lived experiences of nurses during Covid 19 the Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland designed a survey, using SenseMaker, which has provided evidence of a unique social history of nursing during a 21st century global pandemic. Aligning with this, Queens University, Belfast, are conducting a research study via a qualitative survey and audience participation to explore the impact of this work. You can attend this event in person or virtually on the 8th February 2024 4-6pm, to register your interest in attending this hybrid event, please email cst@rcn.org.uk with your full name, email address and if you are attending virtually or in person.
After watching the video, we would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey using the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/w8jRuWq4Nv. Your help in this work is much appreciated!”
This event has been kindly supported by QUB Engaged Research Seed Fund
The School of Nursing and Midwifery has worked in close collaboration with Marie Curie and the School hosts one of four Marie Curie senior research fellows throughout the United Kingdom. This is a joint post between the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Marie Curie Hospice Belfast which aims to address important issues in palliative and end-of-life care. It also supports capacity building in palliative care and end-of-life research.
In 2020 the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast and Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) in Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) formed a novel college of Nursing and Midwifery. The college currently offers MSc programs in Cardiovascular and Paediatric nursing - Read more here: College of Nursing and Midwifery - MBRU
We have an expanding group of postdoctoral researchers from a variety of applied health discipline backgrounds who contribute to a diversity of multidisciplinary research across our School. Meet our Postdoctoral Research Fellows.
We have a vibrant and growing community of postgraduate research students from a number of countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kurdistan, Indonesia, Oman, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Kuwait.
The School of Nursing and Midwifery has a regular program of local, national and international seminar events which invite participation from a range of audiences including service users, charity representatives, healthcare staff, academic staff and post-graduate research students. Additionally, staff within the School lead the International Network of Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN) global classrooms, bringing together doctoral nursing students from across the globe.
Latest Publications
Masculinities and sexual and reproductive health and rights: a global research priority setting exercise
- Aoibheann Brennan-Wilson
- Magaly Marques
- Anna Coates
- Avni Amin
- John Garry
- Mark Tomlinson
- Anam Nyembezi
- Asha George
- Maria Lohan
Nursing research: on the brink of a slippery slope
- Hugh McKenna
- David Thompson
Co-design and mixed methods evaluation of an interdisciplinary digital resource for undergraduate health profession students to improve the prevention, recognition, and management of delirium in Ireland: a study protocol
- Lana Cook
- Alice Coffey
- Christine Brown Wilson
- Pauline Boland
- Patrick Stark
- Margaret Graham
- James McMahon
- Dympna Tuohy
- Heather Barry
- Jill Murphy
- Matt Birch
- Audrey Tierney
- Tara Anderson
- Arlene McCurtin
- Emma Cunningham
- Geoffrey M. Curran
- Gary Mitchell
Care home staff interventions to optimise pain assessment and management in people with advanced dementia in long-term care settings: a systematic review
29 April 2024Advancing health equity in cardiovascular care
- David Thompson
- Chantal F Ski
- Alexander M Clark
Future research direction in Nursing and Midwifery
- Collaboratively developing and evaluating healthcare innovations together with practice, public and policy partners to deliver transformational improvements in health and healthcare locally and internationally that address major health challenges ensuring our research contributes towards attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is impactful to both policy and practice.
- Developing transdisciplinary health innovations driven through external and university partnerships through the Life and Health Science sectoral strength within the Institute of Research Excellence for Advanced Clinical Healthcare (iREACH).
- Building on our strengths of leading rigorous and policy relevant evidence syntheses in partnership with both Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations and through funded NIHR evidence syntheses.
- Delivering evidence informed innovations and clinical guidelines with local partners, such as the Health Trusts of Northern Ireland, charities such as Marie Curie, as well as international partners, notably the World Health Organization and the European Society of Cardiology.