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Denise Proudfoot

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Assistant Professor ,Undergraduate Mental Health Nursing Programme

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As an Assistant Professor Denise lectures primarily on the mental health nursing pathway in the school and was the programme chair for the BSc in mental health nursing degree 2019-2021.From March 2021- September 2022 she was the Deputy Head for the school with specific responsobilty for nursing programmes. She has many years experience lecturing across a variety of nursing/health topics including assessment in mental health nursing , health and marginalisation and primary care and mental health.She developed and now runs a undergraduate nursing module titled Sexuality and Sexual health for nursing practice.

Her research interests include narrative research, life with HIV,sexual health promotion in nursing and marginalisation and health. Her doctorate research ( University of Bath) was a narrative study with mothers living with HIV. Her particular interest in gender and HIV continues in her post-doc research endeavours. During 2019, she led a research study about the community impact of Dual Diagnosis. She is an active member of Nurses and Midwives for Inclusion Health group.

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2019	Proudfoot D,MacGabhann L & Phelan D (2019) Dual Diagnosis A community perspective. DCU, . [Link]

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2018	Proudfoot, Denise (2018) 'Frozen in a Moment in Time: The Experiences of Mothers Being Diagnosed With HIV Infection'. JANAC-JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NURSES IN AIDS CARE, 29 (2). [DOI]
	2016	Casey, B.; Proudfoot, D.; Corbally, M. (2016) 'Narrative in nursing research: An overview of three approaches'. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 72 . [Link] [DOI]

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2018	Denise Proudfoot (2018) Association for the Social Sciences and Humanties in HIV/AIDS ( Pre- conference AIDS 2018) *The impact of Biographical histories of HIV/AIDS on the mothering expriences of Black African mothers living in Ireland*

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2019	Mary Farrelly,Briege Casey & Denise Proudfoot (2019) Homeless Health 2019 When health isn't a priority,working to improve the health of those who are homless London, UK, .
	2019	Denise Proudfoot (2019) HMRG European HIV Seminar Changing the treatment paradigm 1 in 4’: The Female HIV Experience, Insights from Research Dublin, Ireland, .
	2016	Denise Proudfoot & Teresa Touhy (2016) Minding Mothers with Morbidities Conference paper Trinity College, Dublin, .
	2015	Proudfoot D (2015) 2nd Irish Narrative Conference Managing Stigma stories from Irish based HIV positive mothers Maynooth Univeristy, 19/03/2015-20/03/2015.
	2014	Proudfoot D (2014) Narrative Inquiry Conference A narrative study with Irish based mothers living with HIV, one woman’s story “At the top of my road was a pre-school and the bottom of my road a hospice” Centre for Research in the Social Professions, IT, Sligo, 16/04/2014-16/04/2014.
	2013	Proudfoot D (2013) PSYCHOLOGY, HEALTH & MEDICINE PSYCHOLOGY, HEALTH & MEDICINE 10th ANNUAL CONFERENCE STORIES OF MOTHERING WHILE HIV POSITIVE Dublin City University, 01/05/2013-01/05/2013.
	2013	Proudfoot D (2013) National Psychiatric Nursing Research Conference Mental Health is everyone's business University of Warwick, 19/09/2013-20/09/2013.
	2011	Proudfoot D (2011) To Think is to experment Mothers living with HIV telling their stories Centre for Narrative Studies, UEL, London. UK, 18/05/2011-18/05/2011.
	2011	Proudfoot D (2011) The Narrative Practitioner Conference ,Glyndwn, Wales I am just a normal mother..Mothers living with HIV, tell their stories Wales, 20/06/2011-21/06/2011.
	2010	Proudfoot D (2010) 12th Annual Conference National HIV Nurses Association June 2010 Mothering & HIV what the literature tells us Brighton UK, 19/06/2010-20/06/2010.

Thesis

	Year	Publication
	2014	Proudfoot Denise (2014) A Narrative exploration into the experiences of mothers living with HIV in Ireland. University of Bath: THES

Honors and Awards

	Date	Title	Awarding Body
	01/03/2020	Nominee DCU President's Award for Engagement 2020	Presidents Office

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Quality Promotions Committee		28/11/2015 - 28/11/2018
	Faculty Management Board		08/03/2024 -

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
		Kings College School	MSc in Health Education/ Health Promotion
		University of Bath	Professional Doctorate in Health

Creative Outputs

	Year	Title	Type
	2023	Drugs and Ireland	Documentary

Outreach Activities

	Year	Engagement Type	Organisation	Description
	2015	Advisory Work	Finglas Addiction Support Team FAST	Chair of Board of Directors FAST
		DCU in the Community	DCU in the Community	Summer School July 2020 During this years summer school I ran an online workshop titled 'The experience of coping with both mental health and addiction problems'

Media

Title	Year	Type	Authors
Tonight show Virgin 3	2023	Television interview/panel discussion	Denise Proudfoot
My fear was what if the baby had HIV. When I had my daughter, thank god, she was HIV negative'	2018	Newspaper article (online)	Denise Proudfoot
Women-who-are-diagnosed-with-HIV-lets-not-forget-about-them	2018	Newspaper article (online)	Denise Proudfoot

Research Interests

Denise has knowledge and expertise in HIV qualitative research design, specifically using narrative methods.She is a member of SWIFT (Supporting Women with HIV; Forum and Information) which is a UK and Irish group of clinicians, academics and service users who want to further the research agenda with HIV positive women.
Denise has research interests in the areas of HIV, sexual health and mental health nursing,health and marginalisation & health promotion.