Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the following areas:
- Relationship and Sexuality Education from early years to early adults (projects might cover identification of needs or programme co-design and evaluation and settings might include schools, secure care or prisons
- How can men and boys be part of the solution to global, sexual and reproductive health and rights?;
- Men's experiences of termination of pregnancy decision making;
- Men's experiences of maternity services during a pandemic;
Public outreach & key achievements
•DNA of Innovation feature
•REF Impact Case Study 2014 REF
•Policy presentations to the US Department of Health, Dept. of Health Ireland and Stormont parliament Northern Ireland.
•Appointed a Consultant to the World Health Organization Human Reproduction Programme, 2018
•Published in The Conversation
Research students
| PhD Title | Creative Media as a Vehicle for the Reduction of Suicide Risk Among Men |
| Name | Shane O’Donnell |
| Country | Ireland |
| Year of Study | 2018-Present |
| PhD Title | Communities in Play: the social value of youth drama in rural areas of Northern Ireland. (With School of Arts, English and Languages) |
| Name | Molly Goyer |
| Country | Northern Ireland, UK |
| Year of Study | 2014-2018 |
| PhD Title | A Qualitative study of Middle Eastern parents’ experiences of child health services in Northern Ireland |
| Name | Nadhira Karim |
| Country | Iraq |
| Year of Study | 2018-Present |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | A Critical Examination of the Understanding and Use of Human Dignity in End of Life Care |
| Name | Rev Dr Gary Toman |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | |
| PhD Title | Offending behaviour in young male and adult female survivors of traumatic brain injury |
| Name | Dr Conall O'Rourke |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | |
| PhD Title | An evaluation of the If I Were Jack educational resources in post-primary schools with regard to the relationship and sexuality education requirements of teenage men |
| Name | Dr Katie Gillespie |
| Country | Northern Ireland, UK |
| Current Position | |
| PhD Title | Opening up the gendered box on the right to choose: Young men's experiences and decision-making in relation to an unintended pregnancy in their lives |
| Name | Dr Joleen Kane |
| Country | Northern Ireland, UK |
| Current Position | |
| PhD Title | Competent or Not? Young People’s Accounts of Sexual Readiness |
| Name | Dr Michelle Templeton |
| Country | Northern Ireland UK |
| Current Position | Research Fellow, QUB |
| PhD Title | HIV & Pregnancy: Men and women’s experience of reproductive decision-making and pregnancy. |
| Name | Dr Carmel Kelly |
| Country | Canada |
| Current Position | Nurse Consultant in Sexual Health and Lecturer in Nursing (QUB) joint post. |
| PhD Title | Fathers’ Experiences of having a child admitted to Neo-natal Intensive Care. |
| Name | Dr Kathleen Deeney |
| Country | Northern Ireland, UK |
| Current Position | Neonatal Nurse |