I am a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the School of Nursing and Midwifery (SoNM) and have over 20 years experience in Healthcare and Higher Education. I have a Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing and a Bachelors in Nursing from Trinity College Dublin, and a MSc, PhD, and Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from University College Cork (UCC). I also have a Mini-MBA from the Irish Management Institute and am a qualified professional coach having trained with Aspire Coaching. Prior to beginning work in academia, I worked in both the private and public health sectors as a mental health nurse. I was Director of Teaching and Learning in the SoNM for six years, overseeing teaching ands learning strategy, curricula development, and programme approval processes, as well as devising and implementing guidelines and policies. I am passionate about Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and I successfully led the SoNM application for their first Athena SWAN Bronze award for promoting gender equality. I also led the School Quality Review (2023-2024). I held the post of Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the Office of the Deputy Present and Registrar for two years (2021-2023),during which time I led the implementation of a number of UCC's strategic goals and had a pivotal role in the institutional quality review by leading the self assessment on the quality of all taught programmes in the university. During this time I represented the University on a number of national committees and working groups. I have led Mental Health research in the SoNM for 10 years. My interests centralise on the wellbeing of children, young people and marginalised groups, as well as, suicide, self-harm and the co-production of education, research, and policy with experts by experience using participatory methodologies. I have over 100 peer reviewed publications, a h-index of 32 and have received ove

I lead Mental Health research in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. My interests focus on children, young people and marginalised groups, as well as mental health promotion, self-harm and suicide. I have experience of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, systematic reviews an have particular expertise in participatory methodologies. I have published extensively on the co-production of research and education with experts by experience (of mental health services). I am passionate about encouraging researchers to move beyond Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) research frameworks through genuine and authentic partnership due to the failure of PPI strategies to; recognise the discriminatory, stigmatising and power driven ideology they often embrace and to challenge traditional orthodoxy and the nature of knowing/knowledge. I am currently principal investigator on a number of funded research projects including studies to; explore the needs of first responders (Garda, Fire service, ambulance service, coast guard, community first responders, RNLI) when attending the scene of a suspected suicide; an international educational intervention based on Trauma Informed Care, to reduce seclusion, restraint and restrictive practices in child and and adolescent mental health service, children's hospitals and residential care through trauma informed education; co-create a children's mental health policy for Malta in partnership with their government; evaluate an online support programme for people experiencing suicidal ideation; conduct a systematic review and concept analysis of 'lived experience' in health care. Previous funded studies have included; an exploration of the experiences of service users, their parent/guardians, General Practitioners and staff of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Ireland; a national project on suicide and self harm awareness among h

Research Methods Co-production with mental health service users Human rights and inequality Self-harm and suicide Professional and personal development in mental health nursing