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Welcoming Dr Oana Marian to the team!
We are delighted to welcome Dr Oana Marian to the Pregnancy Loss Research Group. Oana recently joined the team as a Postdoctoral Researcher – Knowledge Broker. In this role, she focuses on the translation of research about pregnancy and infant loss into practical resources for health professionals and the public.
Oana's academic background is in theology, poetry, and theopoetics, with practical experience in arts institutions and healthcare chaplaincy. Her doctoral work explored possibilities for collective healing at the intersection of contemporary poetry and critical feminist theology in Ireland.
Between undergraduate and postgraduate study, Oana worked in Bucharest, New York, and Los Angeles as a filmmaker, writer, translator, and photographer. She works periodically with institutions as a creative neurodiversity consultant and as a trauma-informed facilitator of grief work for groups and individuals. Literary and visual art practices continue to shape her research and facilitation.
Oana received her PhD in Theology from Trinity College Dublin earlier this year. Her doctoral thesis was titled “Re-member Theology: A Theopoetical Reading of Three Irish Poets”. She also has a BA in English Language and Literature from Yale University, a MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a MDiv in Theology in the Arts from Yale Divinity School.