Corina Naughton

Corina Naughton is Full Professor of Nursing at University College Dublin. Professor Naughton previously held the post of Professor in Clinical Nursing in Older Person HealthCare at University College Cork and Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Kings College London. Professor Naughton is a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (topic: safe prescribing) from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MSc in Research Methods (University of Bedfordshire), Post Graduate Diploma in Statistics (Trinity College Dublin), Post Graduate Diploma in University Teaching (University College Dublin), Certification in intensive care nursing (University of Sussex). Professor Naughton has worked clinically in older adults, surgical, general and cardiac intensive care and post-anesthetic recovery in Ireland, UK and Australia.
Professor Naughton’s research centers on improving care experience and outcomes for older people across acute, community and nursing home settings, with a focus on implementation science and evidence translation into health systems. Professor Naughton holds a Fulbright-HRB Health Impact award examining the role of implementation leadership and team effectiveness in evidence translation in health systems. She has led or collaborated on projects including implementation of a frailty care bundle in acute care and rehabilitation settings, improving care experience of people with dementia and reducing psychotic prescribing in acute care, building gerontological workforce capability and capacity. She has obtained competitive funding from the Irish Health Research Board, Irish Cancer Society, Health Service Executive, Burdette Trust (UK), Nursing and Midwifery Council of England and Wales, Health Education England.