DrNiamh Humphries

Niamh Humphries is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Research in the Graduate School of Healthcare Management. She joined RCSI GSM in 2022. She is a health workforce researcher who has been researching and seeking solutions to Ireland’s health workforce challenges for the past 20 years. From 2017-2024 she led a HRB-funded Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation Project (HDRM). HDRM focused on the working lives of Ireland’s hospital doctors and on doctor emigration and retention. It involved qualitative and quantitative data collection in Ireland and Australia and collected data from hospital doctors as they worked through the COVID-19 pandemic. The HDRM project also involved data collection with public health doctors in Ireland on their experiences of working during the pandemic. In 2025, Niamh co-authored a case study of Ireland's experience of health worker migration which was underaken in collaboration with WHO (Europe). Niamh is currently leading a HRB-funded research project on GP Retention in collaboration with the Irish College of GPs (2023-26). See doctorretention.eu for more information and updates.