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Diagnoses, Lullabies, and Longer Lives - Go behind the lab door, where a medical scientist turns a speck of tissue into a diagnosis that changes a life — and learn what really goes into that call. Sit up past midnight with Irish mothers across two generations, doing the invisible, moral, emotional work of getting a baby back to sleep. Then look ahead: how do we build digital health — remote monitoring, telemedicine, the lot — that actually reaches older adults, instead of leaving them behind? Real science. Real stories. Real stakes.
Digital health should be accessible to everyone: using technology-enabled care for older adults
Katie Crowley
(Associate Professor)
Digital health technologies—from remote monitoring to telemedicine—are transforming how care is delivered. But if these innovations are not designed and implemented inclusively, they risk leaving older adults behind. This talk explores how we can ensure technology-enabled care is accessible, usable, and meaningful for ageing populations.
From Lab Bench to Big Decisions: The Hidden World of Medical Science
Laura Clifford
(Chief Medical Scientist at Bon Secours Hospital Tralee)
This talk follows the journey of a medical scientist working at the front line of diagnosis. Learn how expertise, experience, and judgement come together to guide critical healthcare decisions. Step inside a hospital histology lab to see how scientists turn tiny tissue samples into life-changing diagnoses—and the decisions behind them.
The Making and Unmaking of Mothers After Midnight
Lucy Wolfe
(Post-Graduate Researcher (PhD), )
An interpretative phenomenological exploration into how Irish mothers, across two generations, have experienced their children’s sleep. Highlighting the continuity and adaptation of parenting values, routines of care, and sleep practices. Exposing the moral, embodied and emotional work that is undertaken when women engage in decisions and practices to settle their baby to sleep.
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