Dr. Deirdre Daly

Deirdre is an Associate Professor in Midwifery in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. She was awarded MA and PhD degrees from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Healthcare Ethics and Law from the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI), an MSc in Midwifery from Queen's University, Belfast and a PGCE and BSc from the University of Ulster. Deirdre's main projects are the Maternal health And Maternal Morbidity in Ireland (MAMMI) study (https://www.tcd.ie/mammi/) and all the follow-up studies (second baby, five-year, 10-year) and other related studies in maternity care. She has led the MAMMI study team since completing her PhD in 2015. Her main areas of methodological research expertise include longitudinal cohort studies, mixed methods research, qualitative research, and she has experience in randomised trials. She was one of Ireland's management committee members on the EU COST Action IS1405 BIRTH (2014-2018) and chaired Working Group 4 (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1405), and is one of Ireland's management committee members on the EU COST Action CA 18138 RiseUp on Peripartum Depression Disorder (PPD) (2019-2023) (https://riseupppd18138.com/). Deirdre has supervised several PhD, MSc (Research) and MSc (Taught) students to successful completion in TCD and is a thesis committee member of a student in the University of Zurich, Switzerland and a student in the Midwifery Science Department, Amsterdam UMC. She supports and mentors other PhD candidates, conducting in-house continuation interviews and running mock PhD vivas, etc. She was external examiner for an MSc (Research) in Germany, and for PhDs in the Universities of Manchester, UK, Tasmania, Australia and Otago, New Zealand. She reviews grant proposals every year for the Wellbeing of Women and the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), UK. She has held several academic roles within the School including Course Co-ordinator (2006-2008), Director of International Initiatives (2014-2016) and Junior Sophister Course Co-ordinator (2020-2022) and has developed and led/co-led a number of midwifery education modules, including the MSc Advancing Midwifery Practice module. She is Director of the Trinity Centre for Maternity Care Research (TCMCR) since 2020. Deirdre is a member of national committees on severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in Ireland, and was a member of the All Ireland midwifery conference planning committee, the Nursing Education Forum and the Expert Group on Midwifery and Paediatric Nurse Education. Deirdre was President of the European Midwives Association from 2005 to 2009 and a Member of the European Union Health Policy Forum. She was an expert member for the European Commission on the Peer Assessment Mission for the profession of midwifery in Croatia (2008) and on the TAIEX workshop on Directive 2005/36/EC and the recognition of professional qualifications (midwifery) in Croatia (2009). Deirdre has been an external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery programmes in universities in Ireland and the UK. She was an editorial board member of the Practising Midwife until 2020 and is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed midwifery and other scientific journals. Deirdre's previous posts include Project Manager for the OptiBIRTH Project (2014-2017), Principal Midwife Teacher, Rotunda Hospital (2002-2006), Midwife manager, Downpatrick Maternity Hospital (1994-1996).

  BIRTH   CAESAREAN SECTION   CHILDBIRTH   EPIDEMIOLOGY   Maternal health and maternal morbidity   Maternity Care   Midwifery   MIDWIFERY EDUCATION   NORMAL-PREGNANCY   Pregnancy   STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE   URINARY   URINARY INCONTINENCE   VAGINAL BIRTH   Women's health

I am the Principal Investigator on the Maternal health And Maternal Morbidity in Ireland (MAMMI) study and the 5-year follow-up study (https://www.tcd.ie/mammi/). The 10-year follow-up study survey is being co-developed with study participants and will include a new section on menopausal health. As a leader of multidisciplinary and multi-institutional bids with internationally recognised partners on various maternal health-related studies, my research programme focuses on building a body of work that seeks to reveal, and address, the hidden and unmet health needs of women during pregnancy and motherhood, and during life after motherhood. The central themes underpinning my research are on increasing the scientific community's and the public's awareness and understanding of women's experiences, amplifying women's voices as co-designers and co-producers of research, and influencing practice and policy. I has a strong record of co-design, and co-presentation and co-authorship with women in multiple media formats. I am a member of the National Women's and Infants Health Programme steering committees on antenatal and postnatal educational resources, the national severe maternal morbidity and maternal death in Ireland groups, one of Ireland's management committee members on the COST Action 18138 on peripartum depression and work group 4 leader on EU COST IS1405 Action, Building Intrapartum Research Through Health (BIRTH) (2014-2018). My main areas of methodological research expertise include longitudinal cohort studies, mixed methods research, qualitative research and systematic reviews.