Celebrating Beauty in Science and Nature
Maeve O' Connell - INFANT Research Centre, CUMH
Maeve studied nursing and midwifery at UCC. She graduated with a Master’s Degree from King’s College London in 2012 and returned to UCC to commence her PhD studies. While living in London, Maeve developed a passion for photography, especially landscape and still life images. She took a short course in Digital Photography at DUCTAC in Dubai and currently has landscape photographs in an amateur exhibition at the Aisling Irish Cultural Centre in Yonkers, New York.
Being a midwife, Maeve has a particular interest in baby portraits and capturing babies’ unique personalities. Maeve is a Clinical Research Midwife on the IMPROvED Research Study at UCC. The main aim of IMPROvED is to develop a clinically robust predictive blood test for pre-eclampsia, using innovative technologies and utilising novel metabolite and protein biomarkers. The study will be recruiting 5000 women in total across 7 European centres in 5 countries. Maeve will be involved in recruiting 1000 first time mothers in Cork to the study in the next 2 years.
Infant - Ava Louise Lyons
This image (Ava Louise Lyons) represents a healthy happy baby girl which is what INFANT is all about - achieving positive birth outcomes.
Tiny Fingers
This image of the tiny baby fingers on the adult hand shows how infants are completely dependent on adults. As health care providers, we are responsible for providing the best possible care we can which is the aim of the INFANT research group- to develop our knowledge and skills as practitioners.
Tiny Toes
I chose this image as it reminded of me of births I have attended where the first thing parents asked was - ‘is everything OK? Does she have ten fingers and ten toes?