Margaret Dunlea

Margaret Dunlea PhD, M.Sc. Midwifery Education, B.Sc. Anthropology, RM, RGN,RNMH is an Assistant Professor in Midwifery in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) (2006-present). She is an experienced midwife with expertise in both hospital and community settings in the UK and Middle East and more recently in Ireland. This has proved invaluable in her current role in Midwifery student education. On returning to Ireland in 1998, she undertook a Masters in Midwifery Education at University College Dublin (2001-2003). She has also completed a B.Sc. in Anthropology in University College London in 1997. Her research activities include undergraduate and postgraduate student research supervision, with a particular interest in all matters concerning maternity care, using qualitative methodologies and informed by critical sociological theories. Her doctoral thesis was an institutional ethnography of change and entrenchment in the Irish maternity services with a particular focus on women’s and healthcare provider’s lived experience of antenatal care. She believes that all midwife’s need to be political and is now actively involved in campaigning for improvements in the Irish maternity services.