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The Trinity Centre for Global Health (TCGH) is seeking to appoint a full-time postdoctoral research fellow to act as the TCGH-based project manager for APOLLO: ‘Improving Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Resilience of Healthcare Workers in Rapidly Changing Environments’.

The School of Psychology is exceptionally proud of our recent awardees of Irish Research Council funding - PhD studentships and Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The School of Psychology is currently accepting applications for the 2023 Evening Course Series “Psychology: The Science of Behaviour and Mind”. Applications are currently open and spaces are limited! Click for more.

Professor Ruth Byrne is giving an invited talk in the workshop “Counterfactuals in minds and machines” at the International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML’23, in Hawaii, July 23rd – 29th 2023.

The option to study by distance is available to students who are interested in undertaking a structured Ph.D. programme under the supervision of our world class research talent and to access our unrivalled academic resources, but who are not in a position to be resident in Dublin for the duration of their studies.

Ruth Byrne is giving a keynote lecture, “How people reason with counterfactual explanations for AI decisions”, at the 31st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in Scotland this week.

Trinity Centre for Global Health TCDCGH Thanks you for all that you do for your students and our research community.

Prof Clare Kelly received the award for her longstanding commitment to excellence in undergraduate teaching and her incredible course The Psychology of the Climate Crisis

Shining a light on outstanding research in our School: check out our new ‘Spotlight’ on Developmental Psychology.

Hosted by Prof Sonia Bishop, talks will take place in-person in the Lloyd Building, LB11 and begin sharply at 1pm. Read more for the lineup and schedule.

Dr Mathew McCauley, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). Through the APA’s Division 19 (Society for Military Psychology), Dr McCauley received this great honour for his outstanding international contributions in the field of psychology. Congratulations to Dr McCauley on this fabulous achievement, which is held by just 3% of the APA’s membership.

Room: AP2.05; Date: Thursday, 2nd June 2022

Trinity College Professors Ruth Byrne and Jennifer McElwain were presented with Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals by An Taoiseach Micheal Martin today, 4th April 2022.

Science for Ukraine campaign.

Applications are invited for the post of Technical Officer (Information Technology) within the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. The appointee will be based in the School of Psychology located in Aras an Phiarsaigh and will provide technical support for a range of activities in the School.

The Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology will join the existing team and contribute to teaching and administration on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology.

The Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology will join the existing team and contribute to primarily teaching and administration duties on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology.

Ruth Byrne, Professor of Cognitive Science, was invited by the National Gallery of Ireland’s Head Curator, Dr Brendan Rooney, and curator of Irish Art, Donal Maguire, to collaborate in the Jack B Yeats.

Applications are invited for the role of Post-doctoral Researcher at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN).

Dr. Kristin Hadfield at Trinity College Dublin has funding for a PhD student to study mother-child relationships among refugees. This is a 4 year, full-time, fully funded PhD studentship.

Fiona Newell has 2 fully funded PhD positions available on a project investigating multisensory object perception in children and adults.

Applications are invited for the role of Research Assistant at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) to work in the Multisensory Cognition Lab headed by Prof. Fiona Newell.

Trinity College Dublin have opened a call for applications for the Chair of Psychology established in 1968. Applications are invited from internationally distinguished academics in any field of scientific psychology.

The position will be part of a multidisciplinary research team working on studies examining cognitive disorders. Current research focuses on Alzheimer’s and other dementias, mild cognitive impairment, brain-injury and healthy volunteers.

The full schedule of seminar speakers for Michaelmas term has now been finalized. Since all talks will be conducted remotely not all talks will take place in the usual 1pm timeslot to accommodate speakers based in other time zones. All School members (students and staff) are welcome to attend and Zoom links will be sent a few days before each talk

Thanks to the 2,050 aviation workers who completed our survey on the impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on aviation workers and the aviation system. The preliminary results are now available. The Lived Experience & Wellbeing team at Trinity College Dublin are focussed on using research evidence to support recovery, resilience and safety.

Psychology: The Science of Behaviour and Mind is a part time lecture series, starting in October 2020 and running for 18 weeks.

The School of Psychology is a partner in the Trinity Centre for Global Health. The centre is seeking an Assistant Professor in Global Health, who will be the Postgraduate Course Co-ordinator.