Magdalena is a lecturer in Midwifery at NUI Galway. She is a qualitative researcher. Her PhD thesis explored the concept of safe motherhood as experienced and understood by women, midwives and traditional birth attendants as well as the social structures that shape their experiences and understanding in southeast Nigeria. The study employed hermeneutic phenomenological approach guided by poststructural feminism.In her MSc. dissertation, she explored support for learning in the clinical area for post registration student midwives.

Women's and maternal health, safe motherhood, normal labour and childbirth, Informal (traditional) birth attendants, cultural birth practices, and international policies around pregnancy and birth.Midwifery education, learning support for midwifery student, clinical learning environment.Methodologies - Qualitative research - hermeneutics, phenomenology, feminisms, discourse analysis and ethnography.

Magdalena teaches across undergraduate, and higher diploma midwifery programmes in the classroom and skills lab settings. She is passionate about all aspects of midwifery, with particular interest in normal midwifery, ethnic minority women, and obstetric emergencies. She uses a variety of teaching methods.