Fostering compassionate and supportive workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss was the focus of a workshop hosted by the Pregnancy Loss Research Group (PLRG) and Mná@UCC on Tuesday, 27 May. The event aimed to provide a forum for UCC staff to hear about recent research in this area and to input into local and national resources for workplaces currently under development.

Dr Caroline Joyce and Dr Aoife Corcoran attended the 13^th EOTTD Meeting with other members of the Irish National Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Centre. Held at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid (Spain), the meeting provided a wonderful opportunity to connect with European colleagues and foster collaborative research projects.

The Irish Network of Healthcare Educators (INHED) Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 “Embracing the Future of Health Professions' Education” was hosted at University College Cork on 22 and 23 May. It was a wonderful opportunity for the Pregnancy Loss Research Group to share our research and connect with a range of people involved in the field of health professions education, including medical education professionals, clinicians and experts by experience.

The British Maternity and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS) Annual Conference 2025 was held at the ICC in Belfast on 08-09 May. 

Last night, an event was held in St Angela’s College, Cork to mark the end of the first year of the SPRING project, a project which aims to increase knowledge and awareness of pregnancy loss amongst young people in secondary schools.

Our warmest congratulations to Anne-Marie Farrell who was conferred with her Master’s in Public Health during the UCC College of Medicine and Health Spring Conferring Ceremony held at Devere Hall on 28 March 2025.

The All-Ireland Maternity and Midwifery Festival 2025 took place in Dublin and online on 08 April. It featured inspirational speakers on policy, management and organisation, professional education and new research.

This week, Dr Oana Sânziana Marian presented her paper “Pregnancy Loss in Clinical-Theological Dialogue” at the Society for the Study of Theology (SST) annual conference.

Today, the Pregnancy Loss Research Group at University College Cork is launching a suite of resources to improve the care of people who experience miscarriage and recurrent miscarriage.

Members of the PLRG attended and presented at the SPHeRE Network 11^th Annual Conference at the RCSI on 04 March 2025. The conference examined how research can and does influence health policy and system reform, very much in line with our ethos at the PLRG.