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Personal profile
Research Interests
- Primary prevention and health promotion in childhood
- School Mental Health (school readiness and transititions)
- Enhancing the nursing contribution and quality of care in the field of public health
Research Statement
I am a lecturer in Children and Young People's Nursing and an NMC registered Specialist Public Health Nurse. I have over 20 years experience in academic research and teaching around the health needs of families of children and young people particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. My PhD explored parental engagement with schools with a particular focus on children's social and emotional development. Building on this my research and scholarly activity has contributed to enhancing the nursing contribution and quality of care in the field of public health, maternal health and childhood development.
Methodologically, my research is grounded in public health approaches to promoting prevention and early intervention to feed into evidence based practices. I have led on and supported a number of large scale research projects (involving complex structures such as longitudinal follow up at 5 time-points). I have considerable experience working alongside a wide range of stakeholders to evaluate intervention effectiveness using research methods which include realist synthesis, experimental methods, process evaluations and surveys.
Other
Leadership Roles
- Public Health Agency (NI) Member of the Infant Mental Health Regional Implementation Group
- Innovation Zones (QUB) - Innovation Zones Fellow
- Member of the Crescendo Management Committee
- Expert external reviewer for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (Child Development)
- Ethics Proportionate Reviewer for Medicine, Health & Life Sciences Faculty
Teaching
- Module Lead: Child Care and the Law (HSN2023)
- Module Co-Lead: Quality Improvement in an Inter-Professional Context (Part A) Graduate Entry Masters in Nursing (GEM7104)
- Module Deputy Lead: Quality Improvement in an Inter-Professional Context (Part B) Graduate Entry Masters in Nursing (GEM7105)
- Module Lecturer: Professionalism, Caring and Communication in Nursing, Graduate Entry Masters in Nursing (GEM7101)
- Module Lecturer: Supporting CYP and their Families with Effective Transitions: Lecture title - Role of School Mental Health and School Transitions (Under Graduate CYP nurses) (NCB3136)
- Module Lecturer: Community & Collaborative Working: Lecture title - Health Visiting and Community Nursing Care (Year 3 Under Graduate Nurses from mixed fields) (NAM3136).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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R3662EDU: Evaluation of Nurture Units
Gildea, A., Connolly, P., Lynn, F., Sloan, S. & Winter, K.
15/10/2014 → …
Project: Research
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R1346SES: Further Development of ‘Crescendo’ to Maximise Programme Impact.
O'Hare, L., Gildea, A. & O'Hara, L.
29/04/2020 → 15/11/2022
Project: Research
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R1332SES: Evaluation and development of logic model for the ‘Try This’ Experiential Emotional Resilience programme for Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 students.
23/01/2020 → 30/04/2021
Project: Research
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R4779NUR: The APPLE Project: A Parenting and Professional Learning Evaluation
McNeill, J., Alderdice, F., Gildea, A. & Lynn, F.
28/10/2016 → 31/10/2019
Project: Research
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Common health assets protocol: a mixed-methods, realist evaluation and economic appraisal of how community led organisations (CLOs) impact on the health and well-being of people living in deprived areas
Baker, R., Ahmed, M., Bertotti, M., Cassidy, J., Chipuriro, R., Clewett, E., Donaldson, C., Elders, A., Fenge, L. A., Fox, J., Galway, K., Gildea, A., McGuinness, A., McLean, J., Manoukian, S., Mason, H., Morgan, A., Mulholland, J., O'Hare, L., Patterson, A., & 7 others, 16 Mar 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 3, 8 p., e069979.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparing the effectiveness of two reciprocal reading comprehension interventions for primary school pupils in disadvantaged schools
O'Hare, L., Stark, P., Cockerill, M., Lloyd, K., McConnellogue, S., Gildea, A., Biggart, A., Bower, C. & Connolly, P., 22 Jun 2023, (Early online date) In: British Journal of Educational Psychology. 23 p., e12623.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Supporting parents in children's early learning: families connect evaluation and impact results
Gildea, A., Lord, P. & Bradley, C., 10 Oct 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Conversations. "The story I want my life to be"
O'Hare, L., Orr, K., Waite, S. J., O'Hara, L., Sweet, D., Gildea, A., Redpath, J., Davidson, R., Dunne, L. & Miller, S., Nov 2022, 104 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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The role of the link worker in social prescribing: a protocol for a scoping review
Mulholland, J., Galway, K., O'Hare, L., Bertotti, M. & Gildea, A., Jun 2022, (Unpublished) 9 p.Research output: Working paper
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Prizes
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ARC Accelerator
O'Hare, Liam (Recipient), Stark, Patrick (Recipient) & Gildea, Aideen (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Other distinction
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Poster Presentation: Sources of Feeding Advice in the first year: who do parents value?
Gildea, Aideen (Recipient), Nov 2008
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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ESRC Festival of Social Science
Laura Dunne (Organiser), Liam O'Hare (Organiser), Karen Orr (Contributor), Leeanne O'Hara (Contributor) & Aideen Gildea (Contributor)
09 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in Festival/Exhibition
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Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne University
Aideen Gildea (Invited speaker)
18 Jan 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Sure Start Evaluation
Aideen Gildea (Consultant)
01 Mar 2022 → 31 Aug 2022Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind
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Presentation to Tenison Woods College, Mount Gambier in Australia
Aideen Gildea (Speaker)
26 Oct 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work (Organisational unit)
Aideen Gildea (Member)
08 Aug 2018 → Feb 2020Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
Press/Media
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Article in The Economist: How to Make Children do Their Homework
Sarah Miller, Jenny Robinson, Seaneen Sloan, Aideen Gildea & Allen Thurston
15/07/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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BBC Education Report: Texting parents boosts maths grades, study suggests
Sarah Miller, Jenny Robinson, Seaneen Sloan, Aideen Gildea & Allen Thurston
15/07/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other