Academic biography

Michelle Butler joined DCU in January 2017 and has a strong track record as an academic leader and extensive teaching, assessment and curriculum development experience. She has over 30 years’ experience of research in midwifery, health services management, and nursing, in Canada, the UK and Ireland. Her particular expertise is in evaluation research, mixed methods, qualitative methods, case study, Delphi and consensus methods, and evidence synthesis. She also has a particular interest in building research capacity with clinical and health services partners. She is Chair of the REACH Collaboratory (a joint research partnership between DCU and the Health Services Executive, Dublin North City and County) and Director of the DCU REACH Centre. She has over 80 publications, 50 in peer-reviewed journals and a h-index of 30 (Google Scholar)/24 (Scopus).