UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

First PhD Graduate from left Dr. Patricia Leahy-Warren with Professor Geraldine McCarthy and President Dr. Michael Murphy, 2009

Doctorate Conferring 2015

The PhD Nursing/Midwifery is a full-time programme taken over 3 years from the date of first registration (commencing in October/January/April/July of each year). It is designed to provide students from a range of different nursing backgrounds with a Doctoral degree. The purpose of the PhD in Nursing/Midwifery degree program is to prepare scholars who will discover and extend scientific knowledge that advances the science and practice of nursing, midwifery and health care. Students are supervised by two or more supervisors and are subject to an annual review of progress. Students are increasingly writing their thesis as a series of published or publishable papers thus encouraging active dissemination of their research. Subsequently a Doctorate in Nursing was established in 2010. The programme consisted of 6 theory modules and a doctoral thesis and was developed to prepare individual nurses to function effectively as advanced leaders in academic and service settings. Both academic and clinical staff undertook this programme and a total of 39 entered the programme many of whom have graduated. These now work in very diverse settings. The capacity to supervise doctoral research has continued to develop within the school with much emphasis being placed on team supervision, implementation of an annual review process, mandated theoretical credits for all students and biannual doctoral away days. In 2018 there were 48 students registered on MSc (research) and doctoral programmes at the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

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