Announcing the Winners of the COMH Postgraduate Research Student Awards!

This Awards Scheme celebrates the outstanding achievements of Postgraduate Research Students in the College of Medicine and Health. It provides a formal process to recognise the achievements, efforts, and valuable contributions of our students.

Prof Yvonne Nolan, our Vice Head of Graduate Studies, College of Medicine and Health celebrated the outstanding achievements of our Postgraduate Research Students in June.

"I am pleased to announce the following recipients of the Research Awards and the winner of the ‘My Research in 1 Minute’ video competition.

The submissions to each of the Award categories and to the ‘My Research in 1 Minute’ video competition were reviewed and scored by a panel of assessors under defined criteria. I would like to thank the panel for their time, effort and knowledge.

The awardees, as follows, were announced and prizes presented at the student summer event in June. Congratulations to all!" 

Postgraduate Researcher of the Year Award

This award recognises outstanding contribution by a postgraduate research student in their research field. Three students were jointly awarded.

Photo: Postgraduate Researcher of the Year jointly awarded to Laura Linehan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Rasha Alshaikh, School of Pharmacy and Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 

Laura Linehan

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the School of Medicine and supervised by Professor Keelin O’Donoghue and Dr Marita Hennessy. Laura was nominated by her supervisor Marita.

Rasha Alshaikh

School of Pharmacy and Dept of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Rasha is supervised by Dr Katie Ryan and Professor Christian Waeber and was nominated by Professor Waeber.

Lynn Buckley

School of Public Health. Lynn is supervised by Dr Margaret Curtin, Dr Louise Gibson and Professor Nicola Cornally and was nominated by Dr Margaret Curtin.

Public Engagement Award

Patricia Flynn

Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, School of Medicine and a former member of the postgraduate research student committee in the College of Medicine and Health. Patricia is supervised by Dr Andre Toulouse and Dr Collette Hand. She was nominated by her supervisors and by the Vice Head of Graduate Studies, COMH.

This award recognises the contribution by a PGR student who has taken an active approach in communicating and engaging with the public to maximise the impact of their research.

Highly Commended:

Naomi Hanrahan, from APC Microbiome Ireland and the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine

Ciara Hanrahan, Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Clinical Therapies 

 

Publication of the Year Award

Andrea Bowe

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health in the School of Medicine. Andrea was nominated by her supervisor Professor Deirdre Murray for her publication in the journal JAMA Network Open in 2023 entitled ‘Prediction of 2-Year Cognitive Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants Using Machine Learning Methods’

This award is for the best publication by a PGR student as a first author (or joint authors if joint first) from work undertaken while registered as a postgraduate student in the College of Medicine and Health.

Outstanding Peer of the Year Award

Ryan Goulding

School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Ryan was nominated by Edina Hanley, Carloine Egan, Dr. Aine O’Donovan, and their supervisors are Dr. Mohamad Saab, Dr. Johnny Goodwin and Dr. Aine O’Donovan.

This award recognises a PGR student who consistently displays characteristics valued and appreciated by other students and colleagues.

Highly Commended:

Louise Murphy from the School of Nursing and Midwifery

Maria Giovanna Caruso from the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience in the School of Medicine

Promotion of Equality and Diversity Award

John Downey

School of Pharmacy. John was nominated by his supervisor Dr Katie Ryan.

This award recognises a PGR student who has demonstrated an active commitment to promoting equality and diversity in their research activities.