Colm Oboyle

Biography

Colm trained as a nurse in Belfast City Hospital after completing a BSc in Botany and Genetics at Queens University Belfast. He worked as a nurse in James' Hospital Dublin in various general medical and surgical areas before returning to Belfast to undertake Midwifery education at the Northern Ireland college of Midwifery and in the Jubilee Maternity Hospital. There he worked in all midwifery areas but mostly in Delivery Suite. He completed an MSc in Midwifery before travelling to work in Malawi (SE Africa) as nurse /midwife teacher. He gained considerable teaching experience and midwifery experience in normal, twin and breech delivery. On return from Africa, Colm took up a midwifery teacher position in the Rotunda Hospital where he worked for 4 years and completed a PG Diploma in Clinical Health Science Eucation. In September 2004 he was seconded to TCD as lecturer in Midwifery where he is now Assitant Professor of Midwifery. He has taught on and co-ordinated various courses including the Bachelor of Midwifery Studies, BSc Midwifery, PG Dip Midwifery and Masters in Midwifery Practice and Leadership. In 2006 he won HRB funding for his doctoral study into Independent midwifery and home birth in Ireland and he graduated in 2010. From 2006 until 2012 Colm undertook to provide support for women seeking home births in the Dublin area. Colm's continuing postdoctoral interest is in capacity building for community midwifery and home birth in Irleand.

Research Interest

Home Birth, Domiciliary midiwfery, Midwifery, Midwifery Education, Maternity Care Assistants, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Labour ward and Delivery, Coping in Labour, Self - Efficacy, control, Midwifery and Obstetric care outcomes.