Dr. Louise Daly

Dr Louise Daly is an Associate Professor in Ageing and Community Nursing and current Head of Discipline for General Nursing (second term), Trinity College Dublin where she has been employed since 2004. She qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1993, a Registered Nurse Tutor in 1999, and in 2010 she obtained her PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Her clinical, education and research interests are in care of the older adult, with a particular interest in dementia care. Louise teaches and supervises in these and other areas across undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School, including on the interdisciplinary online Postgraduate Certificate and blended Masters in Dementia. As part of various research teams within the department, she has worked on research studies that have attracted more than 1,128,000 Euros in research funding. She has a particular interest in qualitative/interpretive, evaluation and meta-synthesis systematic review research methodologies. She is a member of the organising committees of and facilitates two Alzheimer Cafés, and she is a member of the steering and advisory committees' of the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre. Louise serves as a member of the editorial boards of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice journal and the International Journal of Older Person Nursing.

  Acute care nursing   Aged care nursing   Ageing, memory and other cognitive processes   AGING   Aging/Gerontology   Clinical learning environment in nursing   DEMENTIA SERVICES   EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA   Ethics and Law in Dementia   Informal Carers   NURSING EDUCATION   Older Adults - ageing in place, dementia, aging and technolo   OLDER PATIENTS   OLDER PEOPLE

The key foci of my research include: 1.Dementia care (major focus), 2.Care of the older person (major focus), 3.Ethics in practice 4.Supporting sexuality and spirituality in later life. I have an established national profile in dementia and later life care recognised by my peers, health service colleagues and researchers. While my early research related to understanding experiences of service users, families and professionals in these areas, my research has evolved to focus on developing, implementing and evaluating related innovations in care. I aim to engage in research across the continuum of care that generates evidence to inform service transformation to enhance person oriented quality care supporting health and well-being. As my profile evidences, my research primarily fits both within the Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation (TCPHI), within which I am a Principal Investigator for the postdoctoral researcher contract with one of the linked sites, and also the TCD Ageing Research theme. I have a particular strength in collaborative research team working and am continuously asked to join research teams for my: research foci, ability to lead, manage and complete project work packages to deadline, and for support in relation to the ethics and pragmatic feasibility of studies. My experience includes postdoctoral and research assistant supervision. To date, I have been successful in securing funding of over €1,128,000 as Co-applicant or Principal Investigator. The research I conduct is funded and unfunded. A number of the unfunded projects are pro bono with clinical colleagues and are consistent with the TCPHI model of building research capacity within nursing colleagues to impact on health systems and service delivery. I have research skills across a diversity of research paradigms and methodologies with particular expertise in interpretive approaches e.g. grounded theory, and in qualitative systematic review and mixed method evaluation research. I am trained in Joanna Briggs Institute systematic reviews. My research experience informs my research supervision activities.