| Emeritus Full Professor Gerard Fealy was the UCD Professor of Nursing and served as the Dean of Nursing and Head of School from 2016 until his retirement in 2021. He also served on several University committees and governance boards and on a number of international boards. He is a UCD graduate, with an honour’s bachelor degree in nursing (BNS) (UCD 1989), a Master of Education degree (UCD, 1995) and a PhD in Education (UCD, 2003). In a career spanning 45 years in nursing, including 24 years at UCD, he led many of the key developments in nursing education and research at his School. As Head of Teaching and Learning in the early noughties, he led the planning and introduction of the School’s four undergraduate majors in nursing and midwifery. As Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Emeritus Full Professor Fealy played a strategic role in developing research policy at the School, and led programmes of research in social gerontology, nursing history and professional regulation |