PhD Projects

Name	Title	Supervisors
Sindhu Augustine	Factors influencing parental decision to enrol their children in paediatric oncology trials.	Dr Patricia Fox (UCD)
Ellen Murphy	How retention is communicated during the lifecycle of a clinical trial	Dr Frances Shiely (UCC)
Emer Gunne	Digital Technologies in Clinical Trials	Prof Peter Doran (University of Galway) Prof Michael Keane (UCD) Dr Sinead Holden (UCD)
Joanna Pope	Vulnerability to misinformation in the Irish setting	Prof Declan Devane (University of Galway)
Parastoo Niloofar	Translational statistics in clinical trials	Prof John Newell (University of Galway) Dr Shirin Moghaddam (University of Limerick) Dr Amir Jalali (University of Limerick) Prof Marion Campbell (University of Aberdeen) Dr Beatriz Goulao (University of Aberdeen)
Kathleen Hannon	Stakeholders’ perspectives and experiences of PPI in maternal and neonatal clinical trials	Prof Valerie Smith (TCD)
Simone Lepage	The Kids Trial	Prof Declan Devane (University of Galway Dr Laura Flight (University of Sheffield)
Menqgi Li	Informed Health Choices – Cancer	Prof Declan Devane (University of Galway)
Kara McLoughlin	CREAT-ED: Development of Core Outcome Set (COS) in research studies for older adults in the Emergency Department.	Dr Katie Robinson (University of Limerick)

Name	Title	Supervisors
Dr. Fiona Quirke	COHESION: Core Outcomes in Neonatal Encephalopathy	Fiona Quirke is pursuing her HRB NEPTuNE project ‘COHESION: a core outcome set for the prevention and treatment of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy’.
Gloria Emmanuel	How can randomised trials become part of routine care and best utilise current clinical care pathways?	Gloria Emmanuel’s (TCD) research focus is on addressing the question ‘How can randomised trials become part of routine care and best utilise current clinical care pathways?
Dr. Vivienne Hanrahan	Recruiting women during pregnancy and childbirth to clinical trials	Vivienne Hanrahan’s doctoral research ‘Recruiting women during pregnancy and childbirth to clinical trials – the barriers and enablers for trial recruiters’ addresses one of the top 10 questions identified by the PRioRiTy PSP Study.
Dr. Lydia O’ Sullivan	Informed Consent in Clinical Trials	Lydia’s PhD project aims to further our understanding of informed consent and identify how emerging technologies including electronic consent may be used to streamline clinical trials.
Dr. Courtney McDermott	A comparison of statistical methods to compensate for missing data in clinical trials	Courtney’s research compares a variety of statistical methods, such as multiple imputation or linear mixed modeling, to compensate for missing data in clinical trials. She is simulating clinical trial datasets under a range of study designs.

Name	Title	Supervisors
Dr Aislinn Conway	Methods of disseminating and translating research findings to health care professional and other stakeholders	Prof Declan Devane (University of Galway) Professor Mike Clarke(Queen’s University Belfast) Professor Shaun Treweek(University of Aberdeen)
Dr Caroline Hurley	Risk adopted approaches to clinical trial monitoring	Dr Frances Shiely (UCC) Prof Joe Eustace (UCC
Dr Jessica Power	The role of context in the implementation of healthcare interventions	Dr Fiona Larkin (TCD) Professor Eilish McAuliffe(UCD)
Dr Marina Zaki	Barriers and facilitators to statistical rigour in academic-led clinical trial design, conduct, monitoring, analysis, reporting and dissemination of findings.	Professor Eilish McAuliffe (UCD) Co-supervisors Dr. Marie Galligan(UCD) Professor Declan Devane(University of Galway)