The group is working to support research activities and collaboration among members and other research focus areas within the Department of Nursing and Midwifery. Group members are active researchers in the three distinct areas of expertise:

  • Integrated care: The research cluster conducts research spanning from the community to acute and maternity services. These services, their funding and governance are investigated in line with the strategic national priorities around integrated care to serve population’s health needs.
  • Patient safety: Patient safety has been a focus research area in healthcare for almost three decades. However, there is a current augmented activity in this area as financial and social cost of patients’ lives is still high. Cutting edge research work within this group is at the forefront of the national and global patient safety and human factors research movement.
  • Intercultural health: Reducing health disparities and providing intercultural healthcare services that are responsive to the needs of widening culturally and linguistically diverse patient/client populations, (which include refugees and migrants). This is in alignment with a key focus of healthcare policy and practice. However, There is growing evidence that this diverse patient/primary carers cohort, continues to experience difficulties accessing healthcare. This research cluster aims to undertake and disseminate high-quality interdisciplinary research within this field to inform intercultural health policy and practice.

The members are attracting funding from prestigious research and government organisations (e.g. Science Foundation Ireland, Health Research Board, Health Service Executive etc.)  contributing frequently research publications and supervising big groups of PhD and Master students.

Group Lead: Associate Professor Anna Chatzi

Group Members: Associate Professor Kathleen Markey, Associate Professor Sylvia Murphy Tighe, Associate Professor Liz Kingston and Mrs Aminat Adeyemo.