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Research People

Academic Staff

Name	Research Interests
Prof. BISHOP, Sonia	Computational psychiatry of anxiety and depression, computational neuroscience, decision-making under uncertainty, attentional control, face processing
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. CROMIE, Sam	Human factors competence and training
Dr. CUSACK, Rhodri	The emergence of cognition in infants, perinatal brain injury, neuroimaging methods
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.
Dr. HADFIELD, Kristen	Child development, global mental health, wellbeing-promotion
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
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
Dr. RUDDY, Kathy	Cognitive neuroscience. Human motor control.
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
Prof. VANNESTE Sven	Sensory loss conditions such as chronic tinnitus and chronic pain, Parkinson's and memory related issues such as mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
Dr. WHELAN, Robert	Cognitive neuroscience, ageing, addiction, machine learning
Dr. WILSON, Charlotte	Behavioural and emotional disorders in children
Dr. HOWLIN, Claire	Music Cognition, Neuroaesthetics, Identity and Social Inclusion
Dr. COSMA, Alina	Adolescent Health and Developmental, Cross-cultural differences, Global health, Mental health

Research Staff

Name	Research Interests	Mentor	Research Centre
Dr. Abujaber, Nadeen	Health care providers in humanitarian emergencies	Frédérique Vallières	CGH
Dr. Adcock, Katherine	Neuromodulation approaches for treatment	Sven Vanneste	TCIN
Dr. BIANCHI, Max	Neuropharmacology	N/A	TCIN
Dr. Bradley, Gary	___	___	TCIN
Dr. Corbett, Elaine	Cognitive Neuroscience and Decision Making	Redmond O’Connell	TCIN
Dr. Grogan, John	Cognitive Neuroscience; Perceptual Decision-making; Cognitive Modelling	Redmond O’Connell	TCIN
Dr. HIRST, Rebecca	Individual differences in multisensory integration in ageing	N/A	TCIN
Dr. KALOU, Aikaterini	Perceptual decision making; neural modelling; machine learning; electrophysiology; information processing during perception, prediction and action	Redmond O Connell	TCIN
Dr. King, Graham	___	Rhodri Cusack	TCIN
Dr. LISTON, Paul	Aerospace psychology; Air transportation; Applied Psychology; Culture, systems and development; Engineering Psychology; Ethnography; Human Resource Management; Industrial Psychology; Leadership; Organisation design, development, theory, behaviour; Psychology; Safety, reliability and innovation, organisational cultures; Virtual Reality	Siobhan Corrigan	CIHS
Dr. McQuillan, Katie	___	Frédérique Vallières	CGH
Dr. O’Dowd, Alan	Sensory function and multisensory integration across the lifespan	Fiona Newell	TCIN
Dr. Ryan, Meg	Sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, global mental health with a focus on the experiences of refugee and migrant individuals, psychotraumatology, client and therapist experiences of stigmatised identities in therapy and human resources for mental health in humanitarian contexts	Frédérique Vallières	CGH
Dr. Suddell, Stephanie	Computational psychiatry, obsessive-compulsive disorder, emotional disorders, cognitive functioning	Claire Gillan	TCIN
Dr. Truzzi, Anna	Developmental Neuroscience, social behaviour	Rhodri Cusack	TCIN
Dr. Zaadnoordijk, Lorijn	Developmental scientist interested in socio-cognitive development in the first years of life. In my current projects, I work on topics related to caregiver-infant interaction and curiosity-driven learning. Furthermore, in my role as co-lead of the ManyBabies-AtHome project, I work to make remote/online infant testing a robust and accessible method across the world	Rhodri Cusack	TCIN

Research Students

PhD students in the School of Psychology are currently supported by funding from Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarships (16) and TCD Postgraduate Awards (16), or by grants held by academic staff from the Health Research Board (3), European Commission (3), European Research Council (2), National Children's Hospital Foundation (1), CONTEXT scholarship(3), Roas SafetyAuthority(1), Maria Sklodowska Curie(1) and some students are self-funded or funded through their employer

Name	Title of Research	Degree	Supervisor
Alhejailan, Rasha	The Impact of Telehealth Coaching of Parent-Mediated Early Start Denver Model on parents of toddlers at risk of ASD in the UAE	Ph. D.	Olive Healy
Andrews, Ralph	Sustained attention as a gateway to adaptive cognition	Ph. D.	Paul Dockree
Aruchelvan, Elvarane	Diminishing long term forgetting in mild cognitive impairment	Ph. D.	Sven Vanneste
Ataman, Merve	PETIT: Preterm Infant Interaction and Development	Ph. D.	Jean Quigley and Liz Nixon
Barbey, Florentine	ADHD treatment - effects of methylphenidate	Ph. D.	Rob Whelan
Bergin, Simon	Exploring experiential and attentional processes in children's worry	Ph. D.	Charlotte Wilson
Bhargav, Madhav	Identifying the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and predictors of suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in adolescents.	Ph. D.	Lorraine Swords
Boonyananth, Natnicha	Gender Nonconformity and Mental Health Outcomes in Children Who Experienced Domestic Violence: The Mediating Role of Father-Child	Ph. D.	Lorraine Swords
Byczynski, Gabriel	Occiptial nerve stimulation to improve motor learning	Ph. D.	Sven Vanneste
Cai, Pengpeng	The Effect of Online PM+ Intervention in Psychological Problems in Remote Rural Residents in China	Ph. D.	Kristin Hadfield
Caldinelli, Chiara	The emergence of fronto-parietal function in infants	Ph. D.	Rhodri Cusack
Cao, Bolin	Understanding the brain mechanisms that give rise to stereotypical GSR responses sustained over the narrative arch	Ph. D.	Lorina Naci
Castejón España, Jorge	BREATHING, LOCUS COERULEUS AND CHRONIC PAIN	Ph. D.	Svenn Vanneste
Celar, Lenart	Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Explanation and Counterfactual Thinking	Ph. D.	Ruth Byrne
Conica, Mirela	Examining associations between Parent-Infant Interaction and School Readiness	Ph. D.	Liz Nixon & Jean Quigley
Coughlan, Sarah	An investigation of biopsychosocial risk factors associated with the development of preterm infants	Ph. D.	Jean Quigley & Liz Nixon
Craddock, Hannah	Infant fMRI- cognition	Ph. D.	Rhodri Cusack
Dai, Xinyue	Counterfactual decision-making support for precision agriculture	Ph. D.	Ruth Byrne
De Bruin, Enda	An examination of Crisis through the lens of Absorptive Capacity Theory, looking at strategic leadership, internal strategy and innovation arising from the COVID-19 crisis	Ph. D.	Siobhán Corrigan
Del Rosario, Chelo	Psychological and Neurodevelopmental assessment of Neonatal Encephalopathy	Ph. D.	Jean Quigley & Liz Nixon
Deng, Feng	Alteration and progression of executive function and memory distinguish midlife adults with high-risk versus low-risk developing Alzheimer’s Disease	Ph. D.	Lorina Naci
Dooley, Richard	Evaluating treatment outcomes from children experiencing domestic violence	Ph. D.	Lorraine Swords
Duda, Natalia	Improving the patient pathway through the management of risk	Ph. D.	Siobhán Corrigan
Jade Duffy	Decision-making	Ph. D.	Redmond O'Connell
Eggleston, Melanie	Anxiety in Autism	Ph. D.	Charlotte Wilson
Fox, Celine	A dynamic network approach to understanding eating disorder pathology	Ph. D.	Claire Gillan
Grafton-Clarke, Desiree	Parent child interaction and developmental trajectory of children with Down Syndrome.	Ph. D.	Jean Quigley & Elizabeth Nixon
Griffin, Jennifer	The Virtual Couch: A Preliminary Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Development, Research and Trial of the World’s First Integrated Digital Psychotherapy Application	Ph. D.	John O’ Connor
Griffin, Lorna	Adolescents, Social media and Accessible porn: An exploratory study investigating the over sexualisation of teenage girls, and de-sensitisation of sexual violence through social media usage and accessible porn	Ph. D.	Tim Trimble
Jabbour, Salam	Effectiveness of Community and Systemic Therapy among Irish Adolescents	Ph. D.	Tania Bosqui
Hayes, Elke Cliona	Differential adjustment in siblings following parental separation and divorce	Ph. D.	Elizabeth Nixon
Hearns, Aisling	Improving Psychological Treatment for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and other Vulnerable Migrants who have experienced torture and other forms of extreme trauma	Ph. D.	Frédérique Vallières
Hernandez, Lesley Ann	Physical Activity for Autism Spectrum Disorders	Ph. D.	David Hevey
Hickey, Angela	The effects of training adolescents in a proven method for behaviour change	Ph. D.	David Hevey
Hu, Huiqing	Attention in the natural environment: The self regulation of internal and external thought	Ph. D.	Lorina Naci
Judd, Cian	An investigation of the role of perceptual decision making in ADHD	Ph. D.	Redmond O’Connell
Kelley, Seán	Using Passively Collected Smartphone Data to Predict Depression Onset and Remission	Ph. D.	Claire Gillan
Khan, Bilal	Driver sensing and inclusive adaptive automation for older drivers	Ph. D.	Sam Cromie
King, Graham	Using Neuroimaging to Measure Functional Brain Development in Infants From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a Control Group	Ph. D.	Rhodri Cusack
Kravechenko, Anna	Applying machine learning to clinical infant data	Ph. D.	Rhodri Cusack
Lee, Sharon	Understanding and predicting treatment outcomes in internet interventions for depression/anxiety	Ph. D.	Claire Gillan
Martin, Maggie	Evaluation of Irish Primary School Road Safety Education	Ph. D.	Michael Gormley
Martin, Seán	Micro-scale analysis of rapid interactions between brain regions	Ph. D.	Shane O’ Meara
McLoone, Daniel	Depression	Ph. D.	Clare Kelly
Murphy, Kevin	Does ongoing exposure to traumatic events impact on cognitive functioning and the emotional appraisal of everyday situations?	Ph. D.	Tim Trimble
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’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
Plini, Emanuele	Investigating how subcortical networks of the Locus Coeruleus/Noradrenergic System interact with and augment key cortical networks involved in Sustained Attention	Ph. D.	Paul Dockree
Rafei, Parnian	Making and Breaking the Habit Proposal	Ph. D.	Claire Gillian
Ramundy, Jivesh	Improving the sensitivity of functional connectomics based biomarkers of neurodevelopmental disorders	Ph. D.	Clare Kelly
Ross, Derek	Interorganisational Coordination in Emergency Management	Ph. D.	Siobhán Corrigan
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
Scanlan, Elaine	Retrieval Practice: an investigation into its implementation in the Primary School classroom, and its ability to enhance recall	Ph. D.	Shane O’Mara
Toti, Fabio	Predictive Risk Management: a new systemic approach in complex organisations	Ph. D.	Siobhán Corrigan
Traini, Fabiana	Exploring the potential for artificial visual codes in unfamiliar word learning to improve verbal communication in teenagers affected Fragile X Syndrome.	Ph. D.	Shane O’Mara and Max Bianchi
Ussher, Shaun	Collective memories	Ph. D.	Shane O’Mara
Weng, Yihe	Neural mechanism underlying navigational reference frame in aging people	Ph. D.	Robert Whelan