Maeve O’Connell

Maeve O’Connell (Ireland) is an HRB Clinical Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Irish Centre for Fetal & Neonatal Translational Research, University College Cork (Ireland). Maeve received her MSc in Advanced Practice by Research from King’s College London (2012) and expects to complete her doctoral studies and Cochrane Training at University College Cork in 2018. The focus of her PhD is tocophobia in an Irish context and her other research interests include perinatal mental health, smoking cessation in pregnancy and reducing primary caesarean births.

She trained as a nurse and a midwife in University College Cork and currently practices as a midwife in Cork University Maternity Hospital. She also worked previously as a midwife in London (UK). She is a part-time lecturer in Midwifery at University College Cork. Maeve is an advocate for women, passionate about individualised woman-centred care and shared-decision making with the aim of empowering women, facilitating a positive birth experience and promoting evidence-based care in women’s and neonatal health.