# Proud of researchers from CHAS recognised at the 2025 Research Impact Awards 🏆 Policy Impact Winner: Dr Ellen Crushell ⭐ Finalists: Assoc Prof Aoife De Brún Dr Mark Pickering Assoc Prof Barry J. McMahon #ResearchImpact @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdmedicine.bsky.social

Prof Orla Doyle has been announced as this year's overall winner of the UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition for ‘Preparing for Life: changing children’s lives through early parenting support’. 🎉Congratulations to Prof Doyle & all the finalists announced today! ➡️ www.ucd.ie/research/new...

Health Literacy, Self-Management and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Survivors: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To mark the publication of Women in Health Management Global Revolutionaries, we are having a launch event on the 17th of December in the @rcsi.bsky.social Come and hear from @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social and others about the book. Register here: www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-...

Calling all researchers and educators📣 This new RMR by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social on how to conduct effective case studies, offers guidance for using them for learning & decision-making. Essential reading for robust research! https://bit.ly/47PL01l

Open disclosure = honest, compassionate conversations with patients & families after safety incidents. Research by Dr Aoife De Brun is shining a light on how patients, families & staff experience it & co-designing better ways forward. #Healthcare #Transparency #HealthResearch @ucddublin.bsky.social

HRS2026 theme is out healthsystemsglobal.org/news/hsr2026... Big 👏👏🏿👏🏻 working group led by @devakinambiar.bsky.social + Fadi El Jardali! @lucygilson.bsky.social @kristofdecoster.bsky.social @alliancehpsr.bsky.social @karengrepin.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @renzoguinto.bsky.social

Great new analysis just out in #HPP 👉#Power dynamics and intersectoral collaboration for health in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review academic.oup.com/heapol/artic... #PraveenkumarAivalli @dadasara.bsky.social #BrynneGilmore @daktre.bsky.social @aoifedb.bsky.social

Delighted that the Quality & Patient Safety Competency Navigator has been awarded an Irish Healthcare Centre Award in the Patient Safety category. Fantastic collaboration with @hselive.bsky.social & 90+ co-design team members across Ireland! Well done all! www2.healthservice.hse.ie/organisation...

Our new #realistreview work on understanding the contextual influences and mechanisms that support collaboration in interprofessional community care teams for #olderpeople. systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📣PhD funded scholarships available at @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. See here for further information: www.ucd.ie/nmhs/researc... @ucd-chas.bsky.social

New research from @dadasara.bsky.social Realist #evaluation in @bmj.com Global Health looks at how & why Safe Motherhood Action Groups #SMAGs use communication to improve maternal & newborn health care-seeking in #Zambia Read paper doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015961 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVA...

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 This realist #evaluation in @GlobalHealthBMJ takes a look at how and why the Safe Motherhood Action Groups (#SMAGs) use #communication to improve maternal and newborn health care-seeking🤰in #Zambia 🌍 @ucdresearch.bsky.social Have a read at 📖 gh.bmj.com/content/10/4...

Teams The way people work together is central to the safety of healthcare.   Behaviours of individuals at all levels can play a role in the lead up to incidents or in the prevention of incidents.  Teams are people who are used to working with one another, often the same people.  This is…

Important international and rigorous perspective on moral injury and burnout in healthcare professionals. journals.lww.com/hcmrjournal/... Not only does it summarize the evidence needed to spur urgent action in the short term…

Research Ireland is delighted to announce that the 2025 Enterprise Partnership Scheme (Postgraduate) Call is now open. The Enterprise Partnership Scheme PG is a national initiative linking excellent researchers in all disciplines to enterprise. Visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/ente...

This is a really important research project to capture #GP experiences who are working in #Ireland or who have been trained here and and gone abroad. #Academicsky #primarycare

Avoiding ‘second victims’ in healthcare: what support do staff want for coping with patient safety incidents, what do they get and is it effective? A systematic review - bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/2...

Research In Action - New video from @ucdiris.bsky.social /Sophie Mulcahy Symmons's PhD research which aims to find solutions to promote cervical screening awareness by working with a group of women in inner city Dublin using an approach called co-design. bit.ly/UCD-VideoHere

University College Dublin is recruiting 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme (~ tenure-track Assistant Professorships). – Excellent research support – Salary: €62k–€99k – Application deadline: 21 Feb – All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin... @ucddublin.bsky.social

Hot off the press: Exploring unintentional ‘carer harm’—Insights from family carers and professionals:An Irish case study, The British Journal of Social Work #OpenAccess @ucdspswsj.bsky.social Sincere thanks to our participants, Family Carers Ireland +coauthors. #CarerHarm doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...

Our Winners -Teaching Excellence Prof Eileen Gibney, School of Ag & Food Science, Dr Mary Higgins, School of Medicine Dr Susan Rackard, School of Vet Medicine Exceptional Contribution to Learning Dr Cian Davis, School of Medicine Dr Aoife MacCormac, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems

The UCD Ad Astra Fellows Prog is now accepting applications, with 12 positions in Health and Agricultural Sciences.🌟🔍 in critical fields. Visit www.ucd.ie/chas/research/ 🔍 Explore our Researchers 🏢 Learn about our Research Institutes & Centres #Research #HealthScience #UCDAdAstra #ResearchCareers

Two new Ad Astra roles advertised in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems @ucddublin.bsky.social including Assistant Prof in Digital Health and Health Informatics and Assistant Prof in Global Public Health and Policy. See more info www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... @ucd-chas.bsky.social

#DidyouKnow #CervicalCancerPreventionWeek #CervicalCancerAwareness We are proud of our research work at UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social #CervicalCancerResearch #HPVResearch #CancerResearch

Why is remote monitoring on virtual wards for people with frailty so hard? Our new @thisinstitute.bsky.social paper investigates, finding multiple challenges ranging from procurement to work system design and clinician and patient preference. academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

"QI projects that are values-led and incorporate diverse, patient-led data into design are more likely to address health inequalities" "when staff & patients cannot engage fully with equity-focused projects... QI projects are more likely to worsen inequalities" qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

UCD Starter Pack just got an upgrade! If you're working with/for University College Dublin and are new to BlueSky, here's a great place to start (and to be added, if you like). go.bsky.app/CXsbzf

Come & work with us @equalise.bsky.social We are hiring for 4 UCL based Research Fellows. Details here for 3 x UCL Institute of Epidemiology: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... UCL Institute of Child Health with me & Katie Harron: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Final paper of the year is an interesting one looking at #GP in #Ireland Hanlon, H.R., Shé, É.N., Byrne, JP. et al. GP emigration from Ireland: an analysis of data from key destination countries. BMC Health Serv Res 24, 1628 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Our conclusion after 6 years working across the healthcare system #safety

A study from third round of our efficiency research programme found lower turnover rates for nurses and senior doctors at hospital level were associated with better health outcomes for patients with emergency hospital admissions. Paper in @bmj.com 👇

Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New from colleagues @ucdiris.bsky.social - A rapid realist review on leadership and career advancement interventions for women in healthcare www.scopus.com/record/displ...

New open access paper by me & @ginnybraun.bsky.social on reporting guidelines for qualitative research. We centred qualitative research values in creating these guidelines rather than the more typical expert consensus or consolidation/synthesis: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Systematic review on the frequency and quality of reporting patient and public involvement in patient safety research bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

NEW: Healthcare improves in research active healthcare organisations - our updated review published today: