Prof. Veronica Lambert

Veronica was seconded to clinical governance (health research) in Dublin City University in May 2025 having previously held the role of Head of School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health at Dublin City University since September 2022. She has over 19 years’ experience of working in the higher education sector. She is a Full Professor of Children and Family Nursing and leads on child and family focused health and wellbeing research, with a specific interest in understanding experiences of children and families living with childhood long-term health conditions and children's palliative care, including health communication, shared self-management responsibilities, and psychosocial wellbeing and illness impact on child and family. She is leading the Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) Ignite Network at DCU focused on building capacity for high quality health and social care research with patients/public and sustainably embedding meaningful PPI in all health and social care research. She is co-Director of the REACH [Research and Engagement across Community Health] Steering Group - a Health Service Executive and DCU academic partnership to generate evidence to inform decision-making and policy, in partnership with local communities, and related to community health and wellbeing and services/system development.

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.

Teaching Interests

My current and previous clinical nursing teaching interests include research, evidence based practice, caring and communication in healthcare, person and family-centred care, child-friendly health care, child and adolescent development including play.