Nursing & Midwifery

Contact Details

Title	College Lecturer
Address	Nursing and Midwifery 3.05 Catherine Mcauley School of Nursing and Midwifery Brookfield Health Sciences Complex University College Cork Cork, Ireland
Telephone:	+353 214901622
Fax:	+353 214901493
Email:	ei.ccu@llerraf.d

Biography:

Dawn Farrell is currently a PhD student and College Lecturer at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork. For three years Dawn was employed as a research assistant at the School, where she was involved in many projects, including systematic reviews and Cochrane reviews. Dawn also had the opportunity to lecture within the School on a Postgraduate Studentship. She is a Registered General Nurse with extensive clinical nursing experience. She holds a BSc in General Nursing and a Diploma in Health Service Management. For her PhD, Dawn investigated the symptom burden experiences of individuals with inflammatory bowel disease using a mixed methods methadology. To date from her thesis she has published a conceptual paper on symptom burden and a review paper on the measurement of symptom burden specific to inflammatory bowel disease. Dawn was recently awarded travel grants from the College of Medicine and Health and the IBD Crohn's and Colitis Foundation to attend the Advances in IBD Crohn's and Colitis Clinical and Research Conference in Miami to present her work.  


Her research interests include; Symptom research, symptom burden and inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis)