Congratulations to Dr Laura Linehan who was a joint winner of the UCC College of Medicine and Health Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2024 Award. This award recognises outstanding contribution by a postgraduate research student in their research field.
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Congratulations to Dr Laura Linehan on winning Postgraduate Researcher of the Year award
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Members of the PLACES team present at Gender Work and Organization Conference
24 Jun 2024Ruadh Kelly-Harrington and Marita Hennessy PhD presented a series of studies from the PLACES project at the recent Gender Work and Organization Conference (GWO2024). The hybrid session was the second of three concurrent sessions on grief and loss in organisations.
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Perinatal loss in the Czech Republic explored in seminar co-hosted by the PLRG and ISS21
19 Jun 2024The Pregnancy Loss Research Group and Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) co-hosted a seminar on ‘Perinatal loss: Challenging the norms in the Czech context’ on 17 June. Dr Iva Šmídová, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, delivered the seminar while on an Erasmus exchange with academics at ISS21.
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Workplace experiences of pregnancy loss research spotlighted on INTO Teacher Talk podcast
14 Jun 2024Marita Hennessy PhD recently joined David Geary, Director of Communications, and Maeve McCafferty, Equality Officer, with the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) on the ‘Teacher Talk with the INTO’ podcast to discuss issues surrounding the INTO’s campaign to secure paid reproductive health leave for its members.
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Members of the Pregnancy Loss Research Group present at the 20th Annual Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference
01 Jun 2024Dr Tamara Escañuela Sánchez and Ruadh Kelly-Harrington presented at the 20th Annual Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, held at University College Cork on Friday 31 May.
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Caroline Joyce presents at the 12th European Organisation for the Treatment of Trophoblastic Disease meeting in Stockholm
31 May 2024Caroline Joyce presented her work on the use of the Abbott i-STAT®1 Point of Care device for hCG monitoring in early pregnancy at the 12th European Organisation for the Treatment of Trophoblastic Disease meeting in Stockholm on 24 May.
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Congratulations to Dr Laura Linehan on successfully defending her PhD thesis!
30 May 2024Congratulations to Dr Laura Linehan who successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Infertility and recurrent miscarriage: An examination of pregnancy outcomes, services and patient experience” on Thursday, 30 May.
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Congratulations to Samantha and Felicia on passing their final exams!
20 May 2024Congratulations to Samantha Ingham and Felicia Deonarine who passed their final year medicine exams with flying colours. Both Samantha and Felicia undertook their final year projects with the Pregnancy Loss Research Group.
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New national clinical guidelines on ectopic pregnancy and reduced fetal movements published
02 May 2024New national clinical guidelines on the diagnosis and management of ectopic pregnancy, and reduced fetal movements, were launched at the National Women and Infants Health Programme (NWIHP) National Midwifery Conference on 02 May 2024.
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Dr Daniel Nuzum highlights the importance of perinatal palliative care and spirituality at All Island Children’s Palliative Care Conference
30 Apr 2024Dr Daniel Nuzum was invited speaker at the 6th All Island Children’s Palliative Care Conference, presenting on ‘Perinatal palliative care: spirituality, care and memory’.
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