Biography- Patricia Gillen

Patricia registered as a midwife in 1987 and having worked for six months in Royal Maternity Hospital, she went to New York to work. On her return, she took up a post in Jubilee Maternity and worked there as a midwife and Labour ward sister until 1997. She then moved to Downpatrick Maternity Hospital where she was the hospital manager and also undertook some research into midwifery led care. During the early 1990’s, Patricia studied part-time to achieve her BSc Hons in Professional Development in Nursing (with specialist study in Health Service Management) and was awarded her MSc in Midwifery in 1996. She also worked as a Supervisor of Midwives. In January 2002, she took up a post as a Lecturer within the University of Ulster. Since coming to the University, Patricia has completed her PG Dip in Education for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors and in July 2007 successfully completed her PhD. Her research explored the nature and manifestations of bullying in Midwifery.

A summary of Patricia’s research is available here

Key Publications to date:

Gillen P. (2002) Bullies at Work: Midwives Memories RCM Midwives Journal 5 (9) 290-293

Sinclair M.K. Gillen, P. Gardner, J. Boreland, Z. Hood, R. (2002) Midwife Led Care: local, national and international Perspectives RCM Midwives Journal 5 (11) 380-383

Sinclair M.K. Gillen P. Gardner J. Boreland, Z. Hood R. (2002) Key issues in delivering midwife-led-care: data from telephone interviews across U.K. RCM Midwives Journal 5 (12) 426-428

Gillen P. Sinclair M. Kernohan G.  (2004) A concept analysis of bullying in Midwifery Evidence Based Midwifery 2 (2) 46-51

Hasson, F.; P; Keeny, S.; McKenna, H.P.; Gillen, P. (2005) Nurses’, midwives’ and patients’ perceptions of trained healthcare assistants Journal of Advanced Nursing 50 (4) 345-355

Hasson F. McKenna H. P. Keeny, S. Gillen, P. (2005) What do health care assistants do? Royal College of Midwives Journal 8 (2) 74-77

Gillen P. Sinclair M. Kernohan WG. (2008) The nature and manifestations of bulling in midwifery A research Summary ISBN 978-1-85923-231-6