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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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R2507SES: Randomised Controlled Efficacy Trial of Families
Gildea, A. (PI)
05/02/2019 → …
Project: Research
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R3662EDU: Evaluation of Nurture Units
Gildea, A. (PI), Connolly, P. (CoI), Lynn, F. (CoI), Sloan, S. (CoI) & Winter, K. (CoI)
15/10/2014 → …
Project: Research
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R1346SES: Further Development of ‘Crescendo’ to Maximise Programme Impact.
O'Hare, L. (PI), Gildea, A. (CoI) & O'Hara, L. (CoI)
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.
Miller, S. (PI) & Gildea, A. (CoI)
23/01/2020 → 30/04/2021
Project: Research
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R4779NUR: The APPLE Project: A Parenting and Professional Learning Evaluation
McNeill, J. (PI), Alderdice, F. (CoI), Gildea, A. (CoI) & Lynn, F. (CoI)
28/10/2016 → 31/10/2019
Project: Research
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Adaptation and implementation of an intervention to identify and respond to intimate partner violence in the family nurse partnership Northern Ireland program
Larkin, E., Conway, S., Gildea, A., Jack, S. M., Johnston, S., Magennis, C., Rowe, A. & Webb, D., Sept 2025, In: Child Abuse & Neglect. 167, 107538.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Healthcare professionals’ perceptions of family centred care in neonatal intensive care units: A qualitative thematic synthesis
Almalki, M., Gildea, A. & Boyle, B., Feb 2025, In: Journal of Neonatal Nursing. 31, 1, p. 15-25Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Mediation analysis investigating the mechanisms of two school-based smoking prevention interventions in adolescents from Northern Ireland and Bogotá
Murray, J., Sánchez-Franco, S., Sarmiento, O. L., Kimbrough, E. O., Tate, C., Montgomery, S., Kumar, R., Dunne, L., Thurston, A., Gildea, A., Ramalingam, A., Krupka, E. L., Montes, F., Zhou, H., Moore, L., Bauld, L., Llorente, B., Kee, F. & Hunter, R., 06 Apr 2025, SSRN, 552 p.Research output: Working paper
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Meeting Abstract: Evaluation of an intervention to help nurses identify and respond to intimate partner violence in the Family Nurse Partnership Northern Ireland programme
Larkin, E., Conway, S., Gildea, A., Jack, S., Johnston, S., Magennis, C., Rowe, A. & Webb, D., 08 Oct 2025, In: Journal of Advanced Nursing.Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract › peer-review
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Parents' experiences of family-centred care in neonatal intensive care units: a qualitative thematic synthesis
Almalki, M., Gildea, A. & Boyle, B., Jun 2025, In: Journal of Neonatal Nursing. 31, 3, 20 p., 101655.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus)77 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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ARC Accelerator
O'Hare, L. (Recipient), Stark, P. (Recipient) & Gildea, A. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Other distinction
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Funding for Joint Projects between The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Queen’s University Belfast
Gildea, A. (Recipient) & Sleath, B. (Recipient), 19 Jun 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Poster Presentation: Sources of Feeding Advice in the first year: who do parents value?
Gildea, A. (Recipient), Nov 2008
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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Review of Department of Education (NI) Targeted Early Years Interventions
Gildea, A. (Consultant) & Miller, S. (Consultant)
13 Jun 2024Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind
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ESRC Festival of Social Science
Dunne, L. (Organiser), O'Hare, L. (Organiser), Orr, K. (Contributor), O'Hara, L. (Contributor) & Gildea, A. (Contributor)
09 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in Festival/Exhibition
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MHLS Faculty Proportionate Ethics Reviewer for SONM
Gildea, A. (Recipient)
01 Jun 2023Activity: Other activity types › Other
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All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care
Mulholland, J. (Participant), Galway, K. (Participant), Gildea, A. (Participant), O'Hare, L. (Participant) & Bertotti, M. (Participant)
23 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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Article in The Economist: How to Make Children do Their Homework
Miller, S., Robinson, J., Sloan, S., Gildea, A. & Thurston, A.
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
Miller, S., Robinson, J., Sloan, S., Gildea, A. & Thurston, A.
15/07/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other