DrLorraine Carroll

Dr Lorraine Carroll is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Midwifery at the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. She holds a PhD (TCD) in addition to a Master's by Research degree, a professional certificate in Healthcare Education (UCD) and a Bachelor of Midwifery Studies from Trinity College Dublin. She was also a recipient of a UCD College Teaching Excellence award in 2020. Her doctoral research included systematic reviews of risk factors for and pregnancy, birth and neonatal outcomes associated with reduced fetal movements in pregnancy and a prospective case-control study. Additional research interests include perineal management and repair, physiological birth, fetal monitoring, the education of midwifery students and the development of maternity care guidelines.

Lorraine is a Registered Midwife, General Nurse and Tutor with nearly 30 years of clinical practice and 10 years education and research experience. Prior to moving into university academia, Lorraine gained extensive midwifery and management experience working in a busy labour and birthing unit at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin.

Since joining the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems in September 2012, Lorraine has held clinical midwifery tutor posts for the Higher Diploma and BSc Midwifery programmes before attaining an Assistant Professor in Midwifery post in Jan 2017. Lorraine coordinated the design and development of new undergraduate curricula for the BSc and the Higher Diploma in Midwifery programmes following the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland publication of Midwife Registration Programmes Standards and Requirements (NMBI, 2016) and contributed to the development of NMBI National Competency Assessment documents.

Academic leadership roles include Programme Director BSc Midwifery (2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2022) and Higher Diploma in Midwifery (August 2023 onwards). She is a regular journal reviewer for numerous midwifery, obstetric and educational peer-reviewed journals (European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology, Midwifery, Birth, BMC Medical Education, BMC Pregnancy and Birth). In February 2023, Lorraine was invited to join the National Fetal Monitoring Maternity Care Guideline Development Multidisciplinary Group. The National Clinical Guidelines are a programme of work agreed between the National Women and Infants Health Programme and the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.