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Research People

Academic Staff

Name	Research Interests
Dr. BRACKEN, Maeve	Applied behavioural analysis, autism
Prof. BYRNE, Ruth M.J.	Cognitive science of human thinking, reasoning and imagination.
Prof. CARSON, Richard	Cognitive neuroscience, human motor control, neurological rehabilitation
Dr. MCCAULEY, Mathew	Post-traumatic stress, occupational mental health, psychotherapy
Dr. CORRIGAN, Siobhán	Knowledge management & organisational learning; change management, human factors
Dr. CREANER, Mary	Psychotherapy research, clinical supervision
Dr. CROMIE, Sam	Human factors competence and training
Dr. CUSACK, Rhodri	The emergence of cognition in infants, perinatal brain injury, neuroimaging methods
Mr. DAVENPORT, John	Clinical supervision and clinical psychology training
Dr. DOCKREE, Paul	Human evoked potentials, sustained attention, executive control
Mr. DU BERRY, Mark	Psychotherapy(long-term), group therapy
Dr. EUSTACE, Susan	Counselling psychology and psychotherapy; anxiety, depression, mental health concerns, abuse, chronic illness
Ms. FELL, Mary	Long term adult mental health difficulties, service evaluation and psychotherapy.
Ms. FITZGERALD, Sinead	Eating disorders, developmental psychopathology, depression.
Dr, GILLAN, Claire	Computational psychiatry, obsessive-compulsive disorder, addiction, eating disorders
Dr. GORMLEY, Michael	Implicit cognition, addiction, sexual offending, driver behaviour.
Ms. HANNIGAN, Barbara	Counselling psychology and psychotherapy research
Prof. HEALY, Olive	Applied behaviour analysis, autism spectrum disorders
Dr. HEVEY, David	Psychological aspects of coronary heart disease, risk perception, quality of life
Dr. KELLY, Clare	Cognitive Neuroscience, fMRI, individual differences
Dr. NACI, Lorina	Disorders of consciousness, brain injury, altered states of consciousness
Dr. MCDONALD, Nick J.	Human factors and organisational aspects of safety in risk sensitive industries including aviation. Analysis and management of risk. Innovation and change in organisations.
Prof. NEWELL, Fiona	Multisensory perception; object and face recognition; sensory deprivation
Dr. NIXON, Elizabeth	Developmental psychology, social development of children
Dr. O'CONNELL, Redmond	Cognitive Neuroscience: attention, executive function, self-awareness
Dr. O’CONNOR, John	Psychoanalytic theory; obsessive compulsive disorder; depression
Prof. O'MARA, Shane	Biology of learning and memory; mechanisms of brain repair
Dr. QUIGLEY, Jean	Critical psychology; language acquisition and development
Prof. ROBERTSON, Ian H	Neuropsychology, brain plasticity and neurorehabilitation.
Dr. SAMBARAJU, Rahul	Discursive social psychology; prejudice & racism; social identities exclusion / inclusion; migration & refuge-seeking; discursive psychology of peace & conflict
Dr. SWORDS, Lorraine	Developmental psychology, child and adolescent mental health
Dr. TRIMBLE, Tim	Criminological psychology and forensic investigation, policing
Dr. TIERNEY, Kevin	Behavioural analysis; applied behaviour analysis; computerphobia
Dr. TIMULAK, Ladislav	Psychotherapy research, development of empirically based psychotherapy
Dr. VALLIÈRES, Frédérique	Global mental health, global psychotraumatology, applications of psychology for health system
Dr. WHELAN, Robert	Cognitive neuroscience, ageing, addiction, machine learning
Dr. WILSON, Charlotte	Behavioural and emotional disorders in children

Research Staff

Name	Research Interests	Mentor	Research Centre
Dr. TSANOV, Marian	Freely-behaving electrophysiology.		TCIN
Dr. BARANZINI, Daniele	Quantitative analysis in research design and Applications.	Samuel Cromie	CIHS
Dr. BENNETT, Marc	Neuropsychological factors that underlie emotional and behavioral disorders in adolescents and young adults.	Robert Whelan	TCIN
Dr. CALLAGHAN, Charlotte	Neurobiology of learning and memory.	Shane O'Mara	TCIN
Dr. CAHILL, Joan	Human Factors, Human Machine Interaction (theory and methods).	Siobhán Corrigan	CIHS
Dr. COONEY, Sarah	Multisensory Cognition; joint attention, numerical cognition, body perception.	Fiona Newell	TCIN
Dr. CORBETT, Elaine	Cognitive neuroscience and decision making	Redmond O’Connell	TCIN
Dr. CROWLEY, Katie	Affective Computing; Psychophysiology; Brain Computer Interfaces; Biometrics.		TCIN
Dr. DILLINGHAM, Christopher	Systems neuroscience, single unit electrophysiology, mnemonic function	Shane O'Mara	TCIN
Dr. FARINA, Francesca	Age-related changes in memory functioning, behavioural tasks and brain recordings.	Robert Whelan & Redmond O’Connell	TCIN
Dr. FINN, Mairéad		Frédérique Vallières	CGH
Dr. FROST, Bethany	Mechanisms of spatial navigation in subcortical areas.	Shane O’Mara	TCIN
Dr. HARTY, Siobhán	High-level cognition; mental health; online data collection; machine learning	Claire Gillan	TCIN
Dr. HOLMES, Corinne	Multisensory perception and development; mathematical cognition; spatial memory and navigation.	Fiona Newell	TCIN
Dr. KEOGH, Daragh	Emotion-Focused Therapy; emotional transformation in psychotherapy.	Ladislav Timulak	CPH
Dr. KIISKI, Hanni	Cognitive and sensory functioning in neurological and psychiatric conditions (ADHD, multiple sclerosis), electrophysiology, neuropsychology, multisensory person perception	Robert Whelan	TCIN
Dr. LAWLER, Margaret	Health behaviour change, physical activity, motivation, body image, mindfulness.	David Hevey	CPH
Dr. MAMAD, Omar	Electrophysiology and behavioural study related to the memory.	Marian Tsanov	TCIN
Dr. MCGOVERN, David	Sensory neurosciences; perceptual learning; perceptual decision making; age-related changes in perception; multisensory perception	Redmond O’Connell	TCIN
Dr. PALACIOS, Jorge	Implementation of e-mental health solutions and interventions; mental and physical health comorbidity	Ladislav Timulak	CPH
Dr. PRINGLE, Andrew	Crowdsourcing, Internet-based methods, Alzheimer’s detection, Cognitive Reserve, Reinforcement Learning	Claire Gillan	TCIN
Dr. RICHARDS, Derek	Development, implementation and research of technology delivered interventions for mental health.	Ladislav Timulak	CPH
Dr. ROFES, Adria	Clinical linguistics: dementia, brain tumours, stroke, assessment/outcomes, test standardisation.	Paul Dockree & Brian Lawlor	TCIN
Dr. ROIG, Ángel Enrique	Technology delivered interventions for mental health, positive psychology, mindfulness	Ladislav Timulak	CPH
Dr. ROUINE, Jennifer	Pre-clinical behavioural neuroscience, neuropsychopharmacology, depression, cognition and motivation.	Shane O'Mara	TCIN
Dr. RUDDY, Kathy	Cognitive neuroscience. Human motor control.	Robert Whelan	TCIN
Dr. RUEDA DELGADO, Laura	EEG and fMRI analysis, spectral analysis, source estimation methods.	Robert Whelan	TCIN
Dr. VAHEY, Nigel	Implicit cognition, habitual behaviour & impulsivity.	Robert Whelan	TCIN

Research Students

PhD students in the School of Psychology are currently supported by funding from Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarships (14) and TCD Postgraduate Awards (5), or by grants held by academic staff from the Health Research Board (2), European Commission (2), European Research Council (2), Wellcome Trust (1), Templeton Foundation (1), and other sources such as TCD Foundation Scholarship (1), Susi (1), Shell (1), and Brazil Science without Borders (1), and some students are self-funded.

Name	Title of Research	Degree	Supervisor
Abu-Agla, Ayat Siddig Yousif	Migration management policy for health professionals	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Aldamann, Kinan	Managerial practises to ensure the wellbeing of humanitarian volunteers	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Akkol Solakoglu, Selin	Development of a Partner-Assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Women with Early Breast Cancer	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Boyle, Rory	Effects of a mobile biofeedback device for stress management	Ph. D.	Robert Whelan
Brand, Charles	Counselling in Primary Care in Ireland - A National Evaluation of Clinical and Cost Effectiveness	Ph. D.	Ladislav Timulak
Bulbulia, Jenny	Fostering professional wellbeing at a personal, professional and organisational level: an international study of social workers	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Caldinelli, Chiara	The emergence of fronto-parietal function in infants	Ph. D.	Rhodri Cusack
Calvert, Glenn Hans Mark	Neural mechanisms mediating cross-education of motor function across the lifespan	Ph. D.	Richard Geoffrey Carson
Devine, Ciara Anne	Investigating the neurophysiological mechanisms of perceptual decision making in the human brain	Ph. D.	Redmond O’Connell
Duggan, Glen	Emotional Shifting - A Grounded Theory of laughter	Ph. D.	Kevin Tierney
Dully, Jessica	The impact of cognitive aging on perceptual decision making	Ph. D.	Redmond O’Connell
Gaffney, Megan	Risk and resiliency factors for suicidability in Irish adolescents: an evidence based tool	Ph. D.	Tim Trimble
Grafton-Clarke, Desiree	Parent child interaction and developmental trajectory of children with Down Syndrome.	Ph. D.	Jean Quigley & Elizabeth Nixon
Haahr-Pedersen, Ida	Investigating Poly-victimization in Child Abuse Cases	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Hanlon, Holly Rose	Experience, Impact and Understanding of Anxiety in Secondary School Students in Ireland	Ph. D.	Lorraine Swords
Hannigan, Barbara Elizabeth	Renowned master therapist academics: personal lives and professional mastery - a life-story approach	Ph. D.	Jean Mary Quigley
Hayes, Elke Cliona	Differential adjustment in siblings following parental separation and divorce	Ph. D.	Elizabeth Nixon
Hernandez, Lesley Ann	Physical Activity for Autism Spectrum Disorders	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Hickey, Angela	The effects of training adolescents in a proven method for behaviour chance	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Ho, Pik Ki	The psychology and neural correlates of visual aesthetics – insights from architecture and faces	Ph. D.	Fiona Newell
Hughes, Sarah Alicia	Stress and coping in adolescence	Ph. D.	Lorraine Swords & Charlotte Wilson
Huss, Tessy	Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), Social Inclusion and Health: a comparative case study of civil society participation in PRSP drafting processed in Malawi, Sudan and Timor Leste	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Islam, Md Nurul	Development of analysis platform and methods to understand the neuronal encoding of cognitive map in freely behaving rats.	Ph. D.	Shane Michael O'Mara
Jollans, Lee	Endophenotypes of nicotine dependence	Ph. D.	Robert Whelan
Kelly, Linda	The influence of father-child interactions on child developmental outcomes	Ph. D.	Jean Quigley & Elizabeth Nixon
Khasnabis, Chapal	Dissemination of evidence-based practice to professionals working in the field of intellectual disability	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Maddock, Alan	Mindfulness and dermatology	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Madigan, Lucy	What are the experiences of adult children who have been bereaved by the death of a parent by suicide in adulthood?	Ph. D.	Mary Creaner
Mahon, Ciara	Can socioemotional food labelling counter health halos by invoking cognitive dissonance?	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Martin, Maggie	Evaulation of Irish Primary School Road Safety Education	Ph. D.	Michael Gormley
Mc Carthy, Odhran	An evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of a group based cognitive behavioural treatment for individuals with social anxiety disorder and an exploration of the pre-treatment variables (moderators) that influence treatment outcomes	Ph. D.	David Thomas Hevey
Melnychuk, Michael Christopher	Breath control, attention and locus coeruleus function	Ph. D.	Paul Dockree & Ian H Robertson
Moran, Catherine Nora	Age-related differences in mind-wandering: Triangulation of self-report, behavioural, and electrophysiological measures	Ph. D.	Paul Dockree
Murphy, David	A Mixed-Method Investigation of the Structure and Development of Psychosis: Towards a Dimensional model	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Murtagh, Aoife Marie Josephine	The Mental Health Impact of Aphasia - Risk Factors and Mediating Factors	M. Sc.	Paul Dockree
Nandy, Angana	Examination of father-child and mother-child interaction patterns, and child outcomes: Disentangling maternal from paternal specific behaviours	Ph. D.	Jean Quigley & Elizabeth Nixon
O’Dowd, Alan	A multimodal investigation of the dynamics of mirror-touch synaesthesia.	Ph. D.	Fiona Newell
O’Byrne, Thomasena	Understanding Evidence-Based Planning and Decision Making within a Decentralised District Health System in Malawi through Engagement with District Health Management Teams, Frontline Health Workers and other Key Stakeholders: An Action Research Approach	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
O’Farrell, Pia	Identify and assessing children who may be at risk of developing social emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBDs)	Ph. D.	Charlotte Wilson
O'Halloran, Laura	Identifying risk and resilinece factors for patterns of substance misuse in young adulthood	Ph. D.	Robert Whelan
Oliveira, Matheus Cafalchio De	Differential and complementary roles of septal and ventral tegmental neuromodulatory systems on hippocampal spatial representation	Ph. D.	Marian Tsanov & Shane O’Mara
O’Neill, Aimee	Developing an evidence-based model of care for a clinical art therapy service for the New Paediatric Hospital through the examination of the feasibility and efficacy of art therapy group interventions for chronically ill children	Ph. D.	Charlotte Wilson
Pennie, Brian	Alcohol misuse in adults with subclinical attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Quantifying the role of maladaptive coping and impulse control processes	M. Sc.	Robert Whelan
Perera Aladro, Camila	Assessing the implementation of the PM+ intervention for Syrian refugees in primary and community health care centres in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Turkey.	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Rai, Laura	Investigating a digital biomarker of Alzheimer's Diseases using Augmented Reality	Ph. D.	Robert Whelan
Ramey, Devon Michelle	Enhancing Self-Determination in Children with Autism via Behavioural Interventions	Ph. D.	Olive Healy
Ross, Derek	Interorganisational Coordination in Emergency Management	Ph. D.	Nicholas Mc Donald
Rossiter, Charlotte	An examination of the effectiveness of a Precision Teaching Model within a Response to Intervention framework targeting early literacy development with young children within marginalised communities	Ph. D.	Olive Healy
Rys, Wouter Robrecht	The neural determinants of decision making	Ph. D.	Redmond O’Connell
Salamanca, Alicia	Culturally adapted congitive behavioural online treatment for college students with depressive symptoms in Colombia	Ph. D.	Ladislav Timulak & Derek Richards
Seow, Xing Fang Tricia	Avoidance as a neurocognitive marker for ‘Social Withdrawal’	Ph. D.	Claire Gillan
Sheridan, Audrey Christina	Emotion understanding in a clinical sample of 8 to 10 year old children	Ph. D.	Jean Mary Quigley & Charlotte Wilson
Sherwood, Larissa	Identifying context-specific risk or discrete trauma-exposed PSNI officer populations	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Strahan, Orla	Viral HepatitisC Associated Neurocognitive Dysfunction in Ireland in the direct-acting antiviral era	Ph. D.	Paul Dockree & Robert Coen
Walsh, Kevin	An empirical investigation of the predictive coding model of sensory processing	Ph. D.	Redmond O’Connell