My research interests relate to specialist practice, community living for persons with an intellectual disability and supporting families. My research and interests have focused on issues relevant to people with intellectual disability and their families and intellectual disability nursing support and the broader family of nursing. I have undertaken studies on families' views of clients moving from a long-stay institution to a community based setting, clinical nurse specialists in intellectual disability practice in Ireland and research into nurse education in Ireland at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In addition I work with services supporting research projects such as developing nursing documentation and Patient Own Drug Scheme (PODs) in a specialist palliative care inpatient unit. I have also been a member on national projects such as the development of Intellectual Disability Nursing Metrics, Older Person Nursing Metrics and the Future Role of the RNID, Clinical Supervision and a Leadership Programme for Nursing and Health Care Managers in Intellectual Disability Services and am a member of the Health Research Institute at the University of Limerick.

My teaching interests are based on my experience in intellectual disability, working with families and research. I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate students on the nursing and midwifery programmes and supervise both Masters and PhD students within the Department and Faculty.

Dr Doodyandnbsp;is registered Intellectual Disability nurse on the Division of the Nursing Register of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.andnbsp;Since qualifying as a registered intellectual disability nurse in 1997 he has continued his education and completed BSc (2002), MSc (2005) and PhD (2013).andnbsp;His practice experience pertained to children with intellectual disability, behavioural issuesandnbsp;and nursing management. He teaches atandnbsp;both undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the Department of Nursing and Midwifery and he is a Faculty ofandnbsp;Education and Health Sciences Teaching Award Winner and has represented the Faculty in the University Teaching Awards. Hisandnbsp;teaching areas focus on intellectual disability, research and practice development in nursing and midwifery. His research interests relate to specialist practice, community living for persons with an intellectual disability and supporting families. He has a keen interest in working with and supporting nursing practice and staff research and publications. He has been involved in National projects on Intellectual Disability Nursing Metrics, Older Person Nursing Metrics, Transfer Documents for Older Persons to Acute Care, Envisioning the Future Role of the Registered Intellectual Disability Nurse, Clinical Supervision and a Leadership Programme for Nursing and Health Care Managers in Intellectual Disability Services. Dr Doody is a member of the Health Research Institute at ULandnbsp;and has extensive experience supervising students at master and doctoral levels.andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp;andnbsp;