School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarly Impact Report 2021

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CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

PART A: TEACHING, CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY AND PRACTICE, AWARDS

School of Nursing & Midwifery research team create a Web-Hub to support asylum-seeking/refugee students in Higher Education in Europe. The Learning to Live web-hub supporting refugee and asylum-seeking students was officially launched at a conference that marked the end of the 3-year Erasmus+ funded research project. The Learning to Live project was an educational development project which focused on creating digital technology innovations that would enable better social inclusion for vulnerable migrant students and refugees in higher education in Europe. The Learning to Live project was completed by an international consortium involving the School of Nursing andMidwifery UCC, as well as researchers fromEngland (University of Bradford and the overall project lead), Finland (Savonia University of Applied Sciences), Spain (Universitat Rovira I Virgili), and Slovenia (University of Maribor). The conference explored issues relating to quality of life for migrant students, transformative action in higher education, advances in nursing research and education as well as advanced nursing practice experience in the Slovenian and wider international arena. The objective of the web-hub, for which the Irish team were responsible, is to facilitate a one-stop-shop for higher education staff who are looking for resources to help them to support students from asylum-seeking or refugee backgrounds. Via the web-hub, staff and students alike can access a Digital Language Toolkit, to assist with language acquisition as well as digital skills to help with course work. Additionally, an app has been developed that aims to help students to settle-in to their local community.

Highlights

• The Learning to Live project fits well with UCC’s designation as a University of Sanctuary • We have demonstrated a proof of concept for a ‘scalable’ Web-Hub

Lead and Team Members

Dr Angela Flynn (PI), NualaWalshe, Carol Condon, Dr Patricia O’Regan, Dr Emma Hurley, Ms Irina Fernandes Lopes. https://learningtolive.eu/