Geraldine McLoughlin
University College Cork, Ireland
Biography
Geraldine Mc Loughlin is a Midwife Lecturer and BSc (Hons) Midwifery Programme Co-Ordinator in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University College Cork. Her PhD in Education explored Maternal Fetal/Infant Attachment during the transition to new motherhood using interpretative phenomenological analysis. She teaches modules across undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery and nursing. She also collaborates with continuing professional development in the acute Maternity hospital setting facilitating multidisciplinary training in PROMPT Obstetric Emergency Programmes and Neonatal Resuscitation Programmes. She has extensive senior clinical experience in all aspects of midwifery care in both the community facilitating home births and water birth and in the acute obstetric setting. She is experienced in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies particularly interpretive phenomenological analysis. Other research interests include psychological health during pregnancy and early motherhood, transition to parenthood, maternal morbidity and mortalities associated with childbirth, and organisational management of care.