UCD IRIS Centre

• Professor Eilish McAuliffe
• Dr Aoife De Brún
• Dr Brynne Gilmore
• Dr Carmel Davies
• Assoc Professor Christine Linehan
• Ms. Ciara Conlon
• Dr. David Joyce
• Dr Deirdre O’Donnell
• Dr. Emma Nicholson
• Ms. Emer O'Kane
• Professor Gerard Fealy
• Assoc. Professor Hasheem Mannan
• Ms. Julia Corey
• Dr Kate Frazer
• Ms. Marie O'Shea
• Dr Marie Therese Cooney
• Professor Martin McNamara
• Assoc Professor Naonori Kodate
• Dr. Purity Mwendwa
• Dr. Robert Fox
• Dr. Sabrina Anjara
• Dr Sarah Donnelly
• Mr Sean Paul Teeling
• Ms. Sophie Mulcahy Symmons
• Dr Suja Somanadhan
• Dr. Therese McDonnell
• Professor Thilo Kroll

1. Expanding Care Capacity through Remote Monitoring of COVID-19 patients 15-Aug-20 to 14-Mar-21
2. Tender: Mental Health Programme Workplace Mental Health 14-Jul-2020 to 4-Dec-2020
3. CUPID Covid-19: paediatric emergency department attendance during COVID-19 11-May-20 to 10-May-2021
4. International partnership building and research prioritisation for Gender Based Violence (Learn2EndGBV) 1-May-2020 to 31-Dec-2021
5. My Voice: Engaging Young People with Intellectual Disabilities in Research (My Voice) 1-May-2020 to 31-Dec-2021
6. Exploring inclusive leadership in trauma teams (EXPLICIT) 1-May-2020 to 31-Dec-2021
7. Advanced social network methods to explore factors that influence network formation in interdisciplinary settings (CONNECT) 1-Apr-20 to 30-Mar-22
8. Innovative application of design thinking with homeless populations 1-Apr-20 to 30-Mar-22
9. Voluntary Healthcare Forum - Services 1 Dec-19 to 30-Nov-20
10. Identification of public health priorities for children born into and living in homelessness accommodation 1-Apr-19 to 30-Mar-21 
11. Exploring the ‘readiness to change’ among men and women to inform the co- design of targeted anti-female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) interventions in Kenya. 01-Oct-19 to 30-Sep-21
12. Embedding collective leadership to foster collaborative inter-professional working in the care of older people (Eclectic) 02-Sep-19 to 01-Mar-21
13. Access to primary and emergency care for children with intellectual disabilities: utilisation, decision making, parental preferences and disparities 31-Jul-19 to 30-Jul-22
14. TeamTalk: Interactive Resource Hub for Healthcare Teams. 01-Dec-18 to 30-Nov-19
15. Collective Leadership in Healthcare: Development, Implementation & Evaluation Network 21-Se-18 to 20-Jun-19
16. Patient Voice: Participatory action research to support the self management of rheumatoid arthritis 01-Feb-18 to 30-May-2020 
17. Adapting, developing and validating instruments to measure the key elements of quality and patient safety at the individual, team and organizational level in Ireland. 01-Jan-18 to 31-Dec-2020
18. Promoting Assisted Decision Making in Acute Care Settings (PADMACS) for Care Planning Purposes 01-Dec-17 to 31-Jul-20 
19. Speaking up About Safety (SUAS). 01-Dec-17 to 31-Jul-18
20. The development of a PlayDecide game as a new methodology for exploring psychological safety within healthcare teams 01-Oct-2017 to 30-Sep-21
21. Children’s unscheduled primary and emergency care in Ireland: decision making, trends, outcomes and parental perspectives (CUPID) 01-Sep-18 to 31-Aug-21
22. PPI Ignite Award – University College Dublin 13-Nov-17 to 12-Nov-20
23. Comparative Policy Analysis: Problems, Agendas and Policies in Brazil, France, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal and Spain 01-Jul-17 to 31-Dec-17 
24. The Development of a Partnership between UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems and Meru University of Science and Technology, School of Nursing, Meru, Kenya 09-Jan-17 to 08-Jan-18
25. Identifying the optimum role and function of an Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) outreach nurse 01-Jan-17 to 30-Sep-18
26. SAFE: Systematic Approach to improving care for Frail Older patients 07-Nov-16 to 06-Nov-18
27. Access to Prostheses and Orthoses in Cambodia: what works for whom and why? 01-Apr-16 to 30-Sept-17
28. Nursing and Midwifery Quality Care Metrics Project 01-Oct-16 to 31-Dec-17
29. Leadership Intervention-Co-Lead 01-Dec-15 to 30-Nov-20
30. Collective Leadership and Safety Cultures (CO-LEAD) 01-Dec-15 to 30-Apr-21
31. Imbuing Medical Professionalism (IMP)15-Dec-14 to 31-Mar-19
32. Research Emergency Department - Adult Clinical Escalation  (RED-ACE) 01-Dec-14 to 28-Feb-17
33. HRB-TMRN (Trials Methodology Research Network) 23-Mar-15 to 30-Sep-17

• Ms. Carolyn Donohoe PhD topic: Leadership and Strategy Development. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Thilo Kroll.
• Ms. Elizabeth O'Brien PhD topic:The obstacles to employment faced by people with physical disabilities and the policies that might help overcome those obstacles. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Assoc Professor Hasheem Mannan.
• Ms. Lisa Rogers PhD topic: An evaluation of the impact of context within implementation research. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Eilish McAuliffe. View Lisa's PhD overview video
• Ms. Marina Zaki PhD topic: Barriers and facilitators to statistical rigour in academic-led clinical trial design, conduct, monitoring, analysis and reporting. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Eilish McAuliffe.
• Mr. Matthew Douma PhD topic: Proposal for Organizational Innovation: Alberta Surviving Cardiac Arrest Campagin. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Thilo Kroll
• Ms. Roisin O'Donovan PhD topic: The development of a PlayDecide game as a new methodology for exploring psychological safety within healthcare teams. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Eilish McAuliffe.
• Ms. Roubina Karhily PhD topic: Public Perceptions about Primary Healthcare Centres in Lebanon. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Thilo Kroll.
• Ms. Saydeh Dableh PhD topic: Access of Elderly to Primary Healthcare Services in North of Lebonan. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Thilo Kroll.
• Ms. Sharon Gorman PhD topic: Developing a model to progress Public and Patient involvement (PPI) in healthcare decision making in Ireland using a co-lead (collective leadership) design approach. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Eilish McAuliffe.
• Mrs. Una Cunningham PhD topic: What enables Irish healthcare teams to work effectively. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Eilish McAuliffe.
• Ms. Zuneera Khurshid PhD topic: Assessing the effectiveness and sustainability of Measurement for Improvement curriculum and training intervention at micro, meso and macro levels in health care staff. Primary Thesis Supervisor: Professor Eilish McAuliffe.

For details on educational programmes provided by UCD IRIS members, please follow this link.

2020

1. Angel S, Kroll T (2020). Sex Life During the First 10 Years After Spinal Cord Injury: A Qualitative Exploration. Sexuality and Disability. 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-020-09620-9
2. Anjara SG, Ní Shé É, O'Shea M et al. Embedding collective leadership to foster collaborative inter-professional working in the care of older people (ECLECTIC): Study protocol HRB Open Res 2020, 3:8 (https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13004.1)
3. Breckenridge J, Kroll T, Wylie G & Salzberg A (2020). Remembering the past, enhancing the present and sharing the future: A qualitative study of the impact of film screenings in care home communities. Ageing and Society, 1-26. doi:10.1017/S0144686X20000501
4. Brennan, J., Reilly, P., Cuskelly, K., & Donnelly, S. (2020). Social Work, Mental Health, Older People and Covid19. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S1041610220000873
5. Cunningham, U., De Brún, A., & McAuliffe, E. (2020). Application of the critical incident technique in refining an initial programme theory. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20, 131, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01016-9.
6. 6. Conlon C.,Nicholson E.,Rodriguez-Martin B., O’Donovan R., De Brún A., McDonnell T., Bury G., McAuliffe E., (in press), Factors influencing general practitioners decisions to refer paediatric patients to the emergency department: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. BMC Family Practice
7. De Brún, A. & McAuliffe, E. (2020). Exploring the building blocks of collective leadership in a newly established hospital group using social network analysis. Journal of Health Organisation and Management, in press, doi: 10.1108/JHOM-12-2019-0353. 
8. De Brún, A. & McAuliffe, E. (2020). Identifying the context, mechanisms and outcomes underlying collective leadership in teams: Building a realist programme theory. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 261, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05129-1 .
9. Donnelly, S., Manning, M. Mannan, H., Wilson, A. G., & Kroll, T. (2020). Renegotiating dimensions of the self: A systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis of the lived experience of self‐managing rheumatoid arthritis. Health Expectations.
10. Donnelly S, Kroll T, Mannan H, et al  I’M HERE BUT I’M NOT: A PHOTOVOICE STUDY OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF SELF-MANAGING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2020;79:1302-1303. 2. 
11. Suwa, S., Tsujimura, M., Kodate, N., Donnelly, S., Kitinoja, H., Hallila, J., Toivonen, M., Ide, H., Bergman-Kärpijoki, C., Takahashi, E., Ishimaru, M., Shimamura, A., Yu, W. (2020). Exploring perceptions toward home-care robots for older people in Finland, Ireland, and Japan: A comparative questionnaire study. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 91. DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2020.104178
12. Fennelly, O. et al., Ní Shé, É., Casserley-Feeney, S., Desmeules, F. and Cunningham, C. Advanced musculoskeletal physiotherapy practice: The patient journey and experience. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice 2020 10.1016/j.msksp.2019.102077
13. Frawley, T., van Gelderen, F., Somanadhan, S., Coveney, K., Phelan, A., Lynam-Loane, P., & De Brún, A. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 on health systems, mental health, and the potential for nursing. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, in press.
14. Frazer K, Paul G & Kroll T (2020). Learning from Nightingale’s engagement with complex systems: 21st-century public health issues of homelessness and achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Perspectives in Public Health, 140(3), 139–140.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913920914653
15. Gilmore, B., Ndejjo, R., Tchetchia, A., de Claro, V., Nyamupachitu-Mago, E., Lopes, C.A. and Bhattacharyya, S., 2020. Community engagement for COVID-19 prevention and control: A Rapid Evidence Synthesis. BMJ Global Health 
16. Higgins A, Murphy R, Barry J, Eustace-Cook J, Monahan M, Kroll T, Hevey D, Doyle L, Gibbons P (2020). Scoping review of factors influencing the implementation of group psychoeducational initiatives for people experiencing mental health difficulties and their families, Journal of Mental Health, DOI:10.1080/09638237.2020.1714002
17. Ide, H., Kodate, N., Suwa, S., Tsujimura, M., Shimamura, A., Ishimaru, M., Yu, W. (2020) Do care professionals in Japan really want robotics-aided care? A balancing act between individual perceptions and institutional choices. International Journal of Care and Caring (In Press).
18. Lynch, M., & Kodate, N. (2020). Professional practice following regulatory change: An evaluation using principles of “Better Regulation”. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 16(2), 208-215. doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.05.007
19. McAuliffe, E., Hamza, M., McDonnell, T., Nicholson, E., De Brún. A., Barrett, M., Brunsdon, C., Bury, G., Collins, C., Deasy, C., Fitzsimons, J., Galligan, M., Hensey, C. Children’s unscheduled primary and emergency care in Ireland: decision making, trends, outcomes and parental perspectives (CUPID) – Project Protocol. (BMJ Open - publication pending).
20. Macdonald SH-F, Travers J, Ní Shé É, Bailey J, Romero-Ortuno R, Keyes M, et al. (2020) Primary care interventions to address physical frailty among community-dwelling adults aged 60 years or older: A meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228821
21. McDonnell, T., McAuliffe, E., Barrett, M., Conlon, C., Cummins, F., Deasy, C., ... & Nicholson, E. (2020). CUPID COVID-19: emergency department attendance by paediatric patients during COVID-19-project protocol. HRB Open Research, 3(37), 37.
22. McDonnell, T., Nicholson, E., Conlon, C., Barrett, M., Cummins, F., Hensey, C., & McAuliffe, E. (2020). Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Public Health Stages on Paediatric Emergency Attendance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), 6719.
23. Mwendwa P, Kroll T & De Brún A (2020). “To stop #FGM it is important to involve the owners of the tradition aka men”: An Exploratory Analysis of Social Media Discussions on Female Genital Mutilation. Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies, 4(1), 34 – 47.
24. Mwendwa P, Mutea N, Kaimuri MJ, Brun A, Kroll T (2020). “Promote locally led initiatives to fight female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)” lessons from anti-FGM/C advocates in rural Kenya. BMC Reproductive Health 17, 30 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-0884-5
25. Mwendwa, P., Karani, C., Kalondu, E., De Brún, A., Kroll, T., & McAuliffe, E. (2020). What mechanisms and contextual factors facilitate male involvement in women’s sexual and reproductive health in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Rapid Realist Review Protocol. HRB Open, 10.12688/hrbopenres.13113.1 
26. Nicholson, E., Doherty, E., Somanadhan, S., Guerin, S., Schreiber, J., Bury, G., Kroll, T., Raley, M., & McAuliffe, E. (2020). Health inequities in unscheduled healthcare for children with intellectual disabilities in Ireland: a study protocol. HRB Open Research. 3:3. 
27. Nicholson, E., McDonnell, T., De Brún, A., Barrett, M., Bury, G., Collins, C., Hensey, C. & McAuliffe, E. (2020). Factors that influence family and parental preferences and decision making for Unscheduled Paediatric Healthcare – Systematic Review. BMC Health Services Research, 20, 663. 
28. Ní Shé, É.; O’Donnell, D.; Donnelly, S.; Davies, C.; Fattori, F.; Kroll, T.(2020) “What Bothers Me Most Is the Disparity between the Choices that People Have or Don’t Have”: A Qualitative Study on the Health Systems Responsiveness to Implementing the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act in Ireland. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 3294. Open Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/9/3294#cite 
29. Ní Shé, É., Cassidy, J., Davies, C., De Brún, A., Donnelly, S., Dorris, E., . . . O’Philbin, L. (2020). Minding the gap: identifying values to enable public and patient involvement at the pre-commencement stage of research projects. Research Involvement and Engagement, 6(1), 46. doi:10.1186/s40900-020-00220-7
30. O’Donovan, R., Van Dun, D., McAuliffe, E. (2020) Measuring Psychological Safety in Healthcare Teams: Developing a More Accurate and Nuanced Mixed-methods Approach. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1), 1-17
31. O’Donovan, R., & McAuliffe, E. (2020). Exploring psychological safety in healthcare teams to inform the development of interventions: combining observational, survey and interview data. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 1-16.
32. O’Donovan R, McAuliffe E. A systematic review exploring the content and outcomes of interventions to improve psychological safety, speaking up and voice behaviour. BMC Health Services Research. 2020;20(1):1–11. 
33. O’Donovan, R., & Mcauliffe, E. (2020). A systematic review of factors that enable psychological safety in healthcare teams. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 32(4), 240-250.
34. Obayashi, K., Kodate, N., & Masuyama, S. (2020). Can connected technologies improve sleep quality and safety of older adults and caregivers? An evaluation study of sleep monitors and communicative robots at a residential care home in Japan. Technology in Society (In Press).
35. Obayashi, K., Kodate, N., & Masuyama, S. (2020). Measuring the impact of age, gender and dementia on communication-robot interventions in residential care homes. Geriatrics and Gerontology International 20(4):373-378 DOI:10.1111/ggi.13890 PMID: 32077237 
36. Pallesen, K., Rogers, L., Anjara, S., De Brún, A. & McAuliffe, E. (2020). A qualitative evaluation of participants’ experiences of using co-design to develop a collective leadership intervention for healthcare teams. Health Expectations, 23, 358-367, doi:10.1111/hex.13002. 
37. Phillips D, Paul G, Fahy M et al. (2020). The invisible workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: Family carers at the frontline. HRB Open Research, 3:24 (https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13059.1)
38. Rogers L., De Brún A., & McAuliffe E. (2020) Defining and assessing context in healthcare implementation studies: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research 20;591. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05212-7
39. Rogers L., De Brún A., & McAuliffe E. (2020) Development of an integrative coding framework for evaluating context within implementation science. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20, 158. doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01044-5 
40. Sanders, K; Marriott-Statham, K; Mackay, M; McMillan, A; Rennie, K; Robinson, BA; Teeling, SP. (2020) 'The Student International Community of Practice: a critical reflection on the shared experience of being a member, using creative hermeneutics', International Practice Development Journal, 10 (1).
41. Suwa, S., Tsujimura, M., Ide, H., Kodate, N., Ishimaru, M., Shimamura, A., & Yu, W. (2020). Home-care Professionals’ Ethical Perceptions of the Development and Use of Home-care Robots for Older Adults in Japan. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. doi:10.1080/10447318.2020.1736809
42. Teeling, SP., Dewing, J., Baldie, D. (2020) 'A Discussion of the Synergy and Divergence between Lean Six Sigma and Person-centred Improvement Sciences' International Journal of Research in Nursing 11 (10-23). DOI: 3844/ijrnsp.2020.10.23. 
43. Tsujimura, M., Ide, H., Yu, W., Kodate, N., Ishimaru, M., Shimamura, A., Suwa, S. (2020) ‘The essential needs for home-care robots in Japan. Journal of Enabling Technologies (In Press). 
44. Todd S, Bernal J, Shearn J, et al. (2020). Last months of life of people with intellectual disabilities: A UK population‐based study of death and dying in intellectual disability community services. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 00: 1 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12744
45. Vallières, F., Kok, M., Mahmud, I., Sarker, M., Jeacocke, P., Karuga, R., Limato, L., Kea, A.Z., Chikaphupha, K., Sidat, M. and Gilmore, B., 2020. Measuring motivation among close-to-community health workers: developing the CTC Provider Motivational Indicator Scale across six countries. Human resources for health, 18(1), pp.1-12.
46. Zaki M, Galligan M, O'Sullivan L et al. A protocol for a systematic review investigating the factors influencing the statistical planning, design, conduct, analysis and reporting of trials [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. HRB Open Res 2020, 3:36 (https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13068.2)
47. Hasson, F., Nicholson, E., Muldrew, D., Bamidele, O., Payne, S., McIlfatrick. (2020). International Palliative Care Research Priorities: A systematic review. BMC Palliative Care. 19, 16. 
48. McDonnell, T., Nicholson, E., Conlon, C., Barrett, M., Cummins, F., Hensey, C., & McAulliffe, E. (2020). Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Public Health Stages on Paediatric Emergency Attendance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), 6719. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186719 
49. Somanadhan, S., Nicholson, E, Dorris, E., Brinkley, A., Daly, A., Keenan, A., Awan, A., Ennis, S., Mc Grath, V., Mitchell, D., O’Sullivan, G., Power, J., Treacy, E., Lawlor, A., Harkin, P., Lynch, S.A., Donnelly, S.,Kroll, T. (2020). Identifying Priorities for Rare Diseases Research in Ireland: An initiative of a Rare Disease Research Partnership (RAinDRoP). HRB Open Research.
50. Teahan, A., Lafferty, A., McAuliffe, E., Phelan, A., O’Sullivan, L., O’Shea, D., Nicholson, E., & Fealy, G.  (2020). Psychosocial interventions for family carers of people with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Aging and Health. 1-16.
51. Connolly, K.,Teeling, S.P., McNamara, M. 'Live Well after stroke' International Practice Development Journal 10(2)pp.1-16.

        2019

1. Anderson, J. E., Ross, A. J., Lim, R., Kodate, N., Thompson, K., Jensen, H., & Cooney, K. (2019). Nursing teamwork in the care of older people: A mixed methods study. Applied Ergonomics, 80, 119-129. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2019.05.012
2. Anjara, S. G., Bonetto, C., Ganguli, P., Setiyawati, D., Mahendradhata, Y., Yoga, B. H., ... & Van Bortel, T. (2019). Can General Practitioners manage mental disorders in primary care? A partially randomised, pragmatic, cluster trial. PloS one, 14(11), e0224724-e0224724. 
3. Bentley, J., MacLachlan, M., Geiser, P., Mannan, H., & Zou, H. (2019). Disability-related global health needs. In L. A. Brenner, S. A. Reid-Arndt, T. R. Elliott, R. G. Frank, & B. Caplan (Eds.), Handbook of rehabilitation psychology (p. 443–455). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000129-026.
4. Brown, R., Grehan, P., Brennan, M., Carter, D., Brady, A., Moore, E., Teeling, SP., Ward, M., Eaton, D. (2019) Using Lean Six Sigma to improve rates of day of surgery admission in a national thoracic surgery department. International Journal for Quality in Healthcare 31(Supplement_1):14-21 23 
5. Creed, M., McGuirk, M., Buckley, R., De Brún, A. & Kilduff, M. (2019). Using Lean Six Sigma to improve controlled drug processes to release nursing time. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 34(3), 236-241. doi:10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000364
6. Davies C., Lyons C, Whyte R. (2019) Optimizing nursing time in a day care unit: Quality improvement using Lean Six Sigma methodology, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Volume 31, Issue Supplement_1, December 2019, Pages 22–28
7. Davies, C. O'Donnell, D.  Ní Shé, É.  et al., Programme Theory to Guide the Adoption of Assisted Decision Making with Older People in Acute Healthcare: Realist Evaluation, Age and Ageing, Volume 48, Issue Supplement_3, 2019, Pages iii1–iii16,
8. Davies, C.  Fattori, F. O’Donnell, D., Donnelly, S., Ní Shé, É. et al., What are the mechanisms that support Healthcare professionals to adopt Assisted Decision Making in practice? A Rapid Realist Review. BMC Health Services Research In Press
9. De Brún, A., O’Donovan, R., & McAuliffe, E. (2019). Interventions to develop collectivistic leadership in healthcare settings: a systematic review. BMC health services research, 19(1), 72.
10. De Brún, A., Rogers, L., O'Shea, M., & McAuliffe, E. (2019). Understanding the impact of a collective leadership intervention on leadership, team working and safety culture in healthcare teams: a realist evaluation protocol. HRB Open, 2:5, doi: 10.12688/hrbopenres.1
11. Donnelly, S (2019) Airurando kyōwakoku no kōreika shakai ni okeru sōshiaru wāku jissen heno chōsen. [Growing old with dignity in Ireland -challenges for practice in an ageing society]. K. Kaneko & N. Kodate Eds. Shin sekai no shakai fukushi [New global social welfare], Vol. 1 (the UK & Ireland), pp.408-422, Junpōsha Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. 30 Jun 2019 Japanese Handbook on Social Welfare in UK & Ireland (Social Welfare of the World series, Vol.1)
12. Donnelly, S (2019). Adult Safeguarding, Abuse of Vulnerable Adults and Mandatory Reporting: A Rapid Realist Review of the Literature, Age and Ageing, Volume 48, Issue Supplement_3, September 2019, Pages iii17–iii65, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz103.39
13. Donnelly, S. (2019). Mandatory reporting and adult safeguarding: a rapid realist review. Journal of Adult Protection, 21(5), 241-251. doi:10.1108/JAP-03-2019-0011
14. Donnelly, S. Ó Coimín, D.  O'Donnell, D. Davies, C. Ní Shé, É.  et al., Barriers and Enablers of Assisted Decision-making for Older People in Acute Care Hospitals: A Multi-Stakeholder Inquiry. Age and Ageing, 48(Supplement_3), iii1-iii16. doi:10.1093/ageing/afz102.34
15. Donnelly, S., & Morton, S. (2019). Creating organisational and practice change through the use of co-operative inquiry groups in healthcare settings. Action Research Available: https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750319855126
16. Donnelly, S., Begley, E., & O’Brien, M. (2019). How are people with dementia involved in care-planning and decision-making? An Irish social work perspective. Dementia, 18(7-8), 2985-3003. doi:10.1177/1471301218763180
17. Donnely. S and Campbell,J (2019). Airurando kyōwakoku / Kita-airurando ni okeru seijin hogo seisaku to jissen: sōshiaru wākā no yakuwari to kurichikaru na shiten [A critical overview of the role of social workers in adult safeguarding policy and practice in Ireland and Northern Ireland]. K. Kaneko & N. Kodate Eds. Shin sekai no shakai fukushi [New global social welfare], Vol. 1 (the UK & Ireland), pp.442-462, Junpōsha Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Jun 2019 Japanese Handbook on Social Welfare in UK & Ireland (Social Welfare of the World series, Vol.1)442-462
18. Fattori, F., O'Donnell, D., RodrÌguez-MartÌn, B., & Kroll, T. (2019). Which instruments are used to measure shared, supported and assisted healthcare decision-making between patients who have limited, impaired or fluctuating capacity, their family carers and healthcare professionals? A systematic review protocol. doi:10.12688/hrbopenres.12932.1
19. Fennelly, O. et al., Ní Shé, É., Casserley-Feeney, S., Desmeules, F. and Cunningham, C. Advanced musculoskeletal physiotherapy practice: The patient journey and experience. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice 2019 10.1016/j.msksp.2019.102077
20. Fulford, H., McSwiggan, L., Kroll, T., & MacGillivray, S. (2019). Exploring the use of mobile information and communication technologies by people with mood disorders. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. doi:10.1111/inm.12632
21. Gallen, A., Kodate, N., & Casey, D. (2019). How do nurses and midwives perceive their preparedness for quality improvement and patient safety in practice? A cross-sectional national study in Ireland. Nurse Education Today, 76, 125-130. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2019.01.025
22. Gilmore, B., McAuliffe, E, Power, J, Vallieres, F. (2019) Data analysis and synthesis within a realist evaluation: Towards more transparent methodological approaches. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
23. Heavey, E., De Brún, A., Dawson, P., Waring, J., & Scott, J. (2019). Who, why, and when? Patients’ narrative attributions of responsibility for safety. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 60(2), 188-203.
24. Hsiao-Feng Macdonald S, Egan K, Ní Shé É, O'Donnell D, McAuliffe E. (2019) PlayDecide: Patient Safety – A “serious game” learning tool to discuss medical professionalism in relation to reporting and patient safety. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2019;19(4):183.
25. Hunt, K., Bernal, J., Worth, R., Shearn, J., Jarvis, P., Jones, E., . . . Todd, S. (2019). End-of-life care in intellectual disability: A retrospective cross-sectional study. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001985 
26. Kazanga, I., Munthali, A.C., McVeigh, J., Mannan, H., & MacLachlan, M. (2019). Predictors of utilisation of skilled maternal healthcare in Lilongwe district, Malawi. International journal of health policy and management, 8(12), 700. 6.      
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A health system consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health (World Health Organisation (WHO).  Six basic components, which the WHO refers to as System Building Blocks are common to all health services (service delivery, health workforce, information, medicines and technologies, financing, leadership/governance) and the goals of health systems can be simplified as responsiveness, efficiency, improved health and social and financial risk protection.

“Public health [today] enjoys commitment, resources, and powerful interventions... but the power of these interventions is not matched by the power of health systems to deliver them to those in greatest need, on an adequate scale and on time... This arises, in part, from the fact that research on health systems has been so badly neglected and underfunded... In the absence of sound evidence, we will have no good way to compel efficient investments in health systems.”
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization
 

"Yet all too often reform efforts are not evaluated adequately. Each innovation in health systems constitutes a learning opportunity. Not to take advantage of these opportunities condemns us to rediscover at great cost what is already known or to repeat past mistakes”.
Dr. Julio Frenk, President, University of Miami, formerly Faculty Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, Secretary of Health of Mexico

Studying and Researching with the Health Systems Group

Health Systems research students will gain a greater understanding of how health services are being planned and delivered, what may be facilitating or preventing access to health care, and what policy or protocol changes may be necessary to make health systems equitable for all. The doctoral programme in Health Systems will provide students greater depth and preparation to conduct research about the performance of health systems. We offer an interdisciplinary course of study designed to provide students with advanced knowledge, analytical skills, and competencies in health policy, planning, financing, management, evaluation; and research on health systems. The overall goal of the PhD programme in Health Systems is to produce thought leaders in the management, practice, and research dealing with health systems. The PhD programme in Health Systems prepares students to become independent investigators in academic and non-academic research institutions, and emphasises contributions to theory and practice. Graduates of the programme will have developed competencies to play leadership roles in developing and strengthening health systems.

Building upon UCD's role as a leader in transforming health systems and the formalised collaborative relationships UCD has with Ireland East Group Hospitals and the strong partnerships UCD has with major health systems in Europe and Low and Middle Income Countries, the curriculum draws on an interdisciplinary faculty with expertise in nursing and midwifery, health policy, management, psychology, implementation science, social gerontology, disability studies, gender studies and sociology.

Dr. Thérѐse McDonnell presented at Health Economics Association of Ireland (HEAI) Seminar Series Autumn/Winter 2020

On 30th September 2020, Dr. Thérѐse McDonnell presented results from the CUPID Project to the Health Economics Association of Ireland (HEAI), the first presentation of the HEAI's monthly Virtual Seminar Series for Autumn/Winter 2020. The presentation outlined the impact of the introduction of free GP care for children aged under 6 on attendance at Emergency Departments in Ireland.

Roisin O’Donovan delivered presentation of her PhD work at the ISQua World Patient Safety Day

Health systems research addresses policy and service delivery questions that have implications for the performance of the health system as a whole. It addresses a wide range of questions, from health financing, governance, and policy to problems with structuring, planning, management, human resources, service delivery, referral pathways, patient pathways, quality of care, performance management and health outcomes. Health systems research, by necessity, is highly multidisciplinary, with a strong emphasis on social and health sciences disciplines.  Often there is considerable involvement with policy makers, managers and other healthcare professionals.

What distinguishes health systems research is its audience which tends to be broader than a particular service, team or unit.  A question that often arises is how does health systems research differ from health services research, operational research and implementation science?  The reality is that they are not mutually exclusive research domains and all of these may form components of a health systems research project.  For example, a project whose aim is to develop a model of community-based management of a chronic condition that is currently managed in a hospital setting, might begin with an epidemiological study to determine need for the service and an operational research study to understand how the condition is currently managed for patients. 

The next step could be trialling a community intervention.  If this proves successful there will be a need for an implementation science study to identify what is necessary to put this successful model into practice throughout the system.  Additional questions that a health systems study might address are how does this new model impact on staffing requirements? What are the positive and negative impacts on other services? Could the same model be applied to other services?  What are the impacts on patient quality of life? What is the impact on productivity, throughput and cost?

• Intergenerational Mentoring Programs: Building Connections between Marginalised Youth and Older People in Community, by Professor Lorelle Burton. 17th October 2019
• Two-day Systematic Review Course 17th and 24th April 2019
• Health Systems Seminar: Prof. Jeffrey Braithwaite, Professor of Health Systems Research, Macquarie University, Australia. March 27, 2019 listen to podcast
• UCD PPI Ignite Winter School: What Work’s to Engage Seldom Heard Voices in Health and Social Care Research of January 17, 2019 
• Lunchtime seminar "Quality and safety in care transitions across boundaries" January 16, 2019 watch video
• Health Systems Research Showcase October 24, 2018
• Research Seminar in Lean and Leadership In- and Outside Healthcare Settings September 12, 2018
• Health Systems Seminar on SAFE project  Dr. Eidin Ni She April 23, 2018
• 3rd Annual HRB-TMRN Trial Methodology Symposium 2017 "Transparency in Trials"  October 20, 2017
• HRB-TMRN Winter School  17-19 October, 2017
• Presentation by Róisín Shortall folllowed by a Panel Discussion chaired by Prof. Eilish McAuliffe: Sláintecare - Report on the Dáil Committee on the Future of Healthcare June 20, 2017 watch video
• Conversations on cross-cultural perspectives of stillbirth with Dr Maria Luisa Tejada de Rivero Sawers September 19, 2017
• M.Sc. Health Systems Management Information Webinar May 30, 2017
• Open lecture by Mr. Tony O'Brien, Director General, Health Services Executive: "Current Status of Irish Health System: Opportunities and Challenges".  April 4, 2017 view slides
• Open lecture by Dr. Valerie Walsh, HSE: "How is the Irish Health System Financed?" March 9, 2017 view slides
• Health Systems Research Seminar with Dr. Georgina Murphy. December 20, 2016
• Professor Eilish McAuliffe speaking at HRB 30 event November 30, 2016 watch video
• HRB-TMRN Monthly Webinar Series - Ms. Marina Zaki, UCD: Factors affecting Statistical Rigour in Clinical Trials - Findings from the Literature. November 22, 2016 watch video
• UCD Co-Lead Team / The King's Fund Workshop (closed event) November 2, 2016
• Health Systems Seminar Series: Professor Federico Lega October 18, 2016 watch video
• Series of Research Workshops in MMUH  May - July 2016
• Health Systems Seminar Series: Dr. Simon Western March 7, 2016 watch video
• Realist Methods Workshop HRB-TMRN/UCD Health Systems event February 25, 2016 watch video
• Health Systems Seminar Series: Professor Michael West  January 22, 2016 watch video
• Health Systems Seminar Series: Professor Donna Wilson  December 10, 2015