Louise Bennett

Dr. Louise Bennett is a Lecturer in the Department of Nursing and Healthcare and course leader of the BSc (Hons) in Applied Healthcare (add on program) and Cert in Pre-admission Nursing program. She has a research background in epilepsy healthcare, and a clinical background in perioperative nursing.

Louise trained as a general nurse at St James’s Hospital, Dublin and qualified in 1996. She has a wide range of clinical experience and has held a number of clinical positions in acute general settings both nationally and internationally. She specialised in perioperative nursing at St James’s Hospital, Dublin, where she was awarded a distinction in a postgraduate Diploma in Perioperative Nursing at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 2000. She continued her studies by undertaking a MSc in Nursing at TCD (2010), and a post graduate Diploma in Clinical Science Education at TCD (2011). In 2012 she was awarded a distinction in the Nurse-Midwife Prescribing program at the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI), Dublin.

Whilst undertaking her PhD at Waterford Institute of Technology she took up a full time position in 2014 as a Lecturer in the Department of Nursing and Healthcare at WIT. She was awarded a PhD by research from WIT in 2019 with a thesis entitled ‘Empowerment in Epilepsy Services: A ‘Soft Systems’ Study Referenced to Critical Social Theory and a Specialist Service in Ireland. Supervisors: Dr. Michael Bergin (Head of the Department of Applied Arts, School of Humanities, WIT) and Professor John S.G. Wells (Head of School of Health Sciences, WIT).