Primary Department
School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health
Phone number: 01 700
7161
Email Address
veronica.lambert@dcu.ie
Academic biography
Prof. Veronica Lambert (PhD, BNS (Hons), RGN, RCN) is Full Professor of Children and Family Nursing at Dublin City University. Veronica leads on children and family focused research and has a specific interest in understanding the experiences of children and families living with childhood long-term health conditions including child and family communication, shared self-management responsibilities, and psychosocial wellbeing and illness impact on child and family. More recently, Veronica’s interests have expanded into children’s palliative care. She is currently principal investigator on a Higher Education Authority North South funded study to co-produce a decision-making framework for planning the place of end-of-life care for children, young people and their families on the island of Ireland. She is also principal investigator on a Health Research Board Applied Partnership Award, in partnership with Barretstown Children’s Charity, for a study entitled ‘Memory-making through therapeutic recreation for families of children with life-threatening conditions receiving palliative care at home: Adaptation of a digital storytelling legacy intervention.’ Other research interests include; paediatric early warning systems, clinical research capacity in children's nursing, patient/person/family centered care, virtual reality and public and patient involvement in health care and research. Veronica is the Health Research Board- Irish Research Council Public and Patient Involvement Ignite Network Lead for DCU.
Research interests
Children and family focused research with a specific interest in understanding the experiences of children and families living with childhood long-term health conditions including child and family communication, shared self-management responsibilities, and psychosocial wellbeing and illness impact on child and family. Children’s palliative care including decision-making for planning the place of end-of-life care for children, young people and their families and memory making for families of children with life-threatening conditions receiving palliative care at home. Paediatric early warning systems, clinical research capacity in children's nursing, person and family centered care, virtual reality and public and patient involvement in health care and research.
