People
Our staff hold prestigious positions including membership of national and international committees, such as: National neonatal audit board; Confederation of Midwives Research Standing Committee; Senior advisory group UNICEF. Additionally, we hold editorial position with journals such as: PLoS Medicine, Infant Mental Health, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, Frontiers in Rehabilitation Science, and Journal of Neonatal Nursing.
| Name | Areas of Expertise | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Áine Aventin |
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Relationships and Sexuality Education Gender Inequalities in Sexual and Reproductive Health Mental Health (Adolescents, Maternal, Paternal) |
a.aventin@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Breidge Boyle |
Neonatal and children's health |
Breidge.Boyle@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Sonya Clarke |
Children and young people health, orthopedics and nurse education |
sonya.clarke@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Aideen Gildea |
Child Health and Development Maternal and child mental health School Mental Health (School Readiness and Transitions) Children’s Social and Emotional Development |
a.gildea@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Anne Grant |
Experiences of children whose parents have mental illness Support for parents who have mental illness and their children from the community and voluntary services Grandparents needs and experiences when supporting adult children who have mental illness and who are parents Strategies to promote effective inter-professional teamwork across services, sectors and agencies when supporting families affected by parental mental illness |
A.Grant@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Maria Healy |
Supporting physiological birth through midwifer-led care and leadership Enabling women to give birth in midwifer-led units Continunity of midwifery carer Midwifery education |
maria.healy@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Claire Kerr |
Paediatric neurodisability Rehabilitation |
c.kerr@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Lorna Lawther |
Public health Antenatal education Simulation based learning and education Critical care in midwifery practice |
l.lawther@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Mark Linden |
Neurodisability and the criminal justice system Educational outcomes Concussion/Mild traumatic brain injury |
m.linden@qub.ac.uk |
| Professor Maria Lohan |
Relationship and Sexuality Education from early years to early adults (projects might cover identification of needs or programme co-design and evaluation and settings might include schools, secure care or prisons How can men and boys be part of the solution to global, sexual and reproductive health and rights? Men's experiences of termination of pregnancy decision making Men's experiences of maternity services during a pandemic; |
m.lohan@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Fiona Lynn |
Exploring the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve outcomes in health and wellbeing for parents, children, families and communities |
f.lynn@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Lynne Marsh |
Health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities Intellectual and development disabilities Fathers’ and families' experiences of children with intellectual disabilities Qualitative research |
L.Marsh@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Karen McConnell |
Physical activity and disability Paediatric and adult neurodisability Evidence synthesis Patient and public involvement |
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| Dr Jennifer McNeill |
Maternal and child health and midwifery specifically in relation to practice, education or improving clinical outcomes |
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| Dr Oliver Perra |
Charting, monitoring, and understanding the development of learning and behaviour of term and pre-term infants Interventions to improve term and pre-term infants’ learning and social learning skills Developmental outcomes of Cerebral Palsy children |
o.perra@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Janine Stockdale |
Education (Design, Simulation, Technologies etc) Maternity Care |
j.stockdale@qub.ac.uk |
| Professor Mark Tomlinson |
Child and adolescent development across the life course Maternal mental health Maternal and child health |
Mark.Tomlinson@qub.ac.uk |