Prof. Michelle Butler

Michelle has over 30 years’ experience of in midwifery and health services research in Canada, the UK and Ireland, funded by the International Confederation of Midwives, the Health Research Board, the Health Services Executive, the Committee for Public Management Research, the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery, the Women's Health Council, the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, and the National Council on Aging and Older people. Her particular expertise is in evaluation research, mixed methods, qualitative methods, case study, Delphi and consensus methods, and evidence synthesis. She has over 80 publications, 52 in peer-reviewed journals.

Michelle has extensive experience of teaching, curriculum development and assessment in relation to research methodology, healthcare management, health policy, and nursing ethics. She currently teaches research methods and is module coordinator for the master’s dissertation module, and supervises PhD, master’s and undergraduate research students. She also teaches nursing ethics to third- and fourth-year undergraduate students across the four nursing programmes at DCU.