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Professor Maria Lohan

School of Nursing and Midwifery
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Professor Maria Lohan

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Professor Maria Lohan is Chair in Social Sciences and Health, School of Nursing & Midwifery and Theme Lead for Maternal and Child Health. She is also a Fellow of the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation.

Professor Lohan’s research team is dedicated to better understanding inequalities in health in society, especially in relation to improving men’s sexual health and involvement in reproduction and parenting.

She leads a programme of research undertaking systematic reviews and developing and evaluating evidence-based educational and health care interventions to improve men’s sexual health and to enhance men’s involvement in reproductive health and parenting.

The objective of this research is to generate new thinking on men’s roles in sexual health, reproduction and parenting.

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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;

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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

 

 


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