Margaret Dunlea
Professor
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Margaret Dunlea RGN, RM, B.Sc.(Honours) Anthropology, M.Sc. Midwifery Education is a lecturer in Midwifery in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Having qualified as a midwife in 1986 she has extensive experience in all aspects of midwifery care, working in both hospital and community settings in the UK and Middle East and more recently in Ireland. On returning to Ireland in 1998 she worked as a midwife in the Rotunda Hospital while also completing a MSc in Midwifery Education at UCD (2001-2003). She took up a post as a Midwife Tutor in The School of Midwifery in the Coombe in 2002. Her transfer to TCD in September 2006 coincided with the launching of Trinity's first honours undergraduate degree programme in midwifery (BSc in Midwifery -4yrs.) Margaret's research interests are in Maternity Care and Women's Health issues.
Research Interest
Maternity Care, Models of Maternity Care, Autonomy and Empowerment (women and midwives), Midwifery practice, Perineum Suturing, Female Genital Mutilatiion, Education, Teaching, Learning, Assessment, Group work.
Publications
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Dunlea Margaret, Murphy-Lawless Jo, Ohaja Magda , The nature and impact of risk discourse in the provision of antenatal care: A literature review, AHRC Risks of Childbirth in Historical Perspective network, University of Leeds , 2017
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Cowman Triona and Dunlea Margaret, Perineal Repair by Midwives in Ireland: A National Survey of Skills Knowledge and Experience, Normal labour and Birth Conference, Grange over Sands in the English Lake District, 15th to 17th June, 2015
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Dunlea Margaret, Cowman Triona, Kelly Paul, Poster: A national survey identifying the perceived competence and the process of education and training in perineal repair by midwives in Ireland , School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin , 2014
