Kathleen McTiernan

Assistant Professor in Psychology

Research Interests

My area of research interest is Ageing and Wellbeing. I collect narratives of people who are ageing, and archive and publish them digitally. I have a strong commitment to research innovation and interdisciplinary research, evidenced by the publication of the Lifescapes Digital Archive, the Life History Digital Archive. Recently, I was awarded IRCHSS funding to develop The Life History Digital Archive. The website for the archive, currently under construction, http://thelifehistoriesarchive.com, acts as a portal through which the content, digitised autobiographies, which were written by older people, from Dublin and Belfast, can be accessed.

Selected Publications

• McTiernan, K. & O’Donnell, D. (2012). Life Histories Archive. Retrieved from
  http://www.lifehistoriesarchive.com

• Quinn, A., Leahy, M.M. & McTiernan, K. (2012). Evaluating language assessments with members of the travelling community. Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Vol. 18, 41-56.

• Leahy, M., McTiernan, K., Smith, M.M., Sloane, P., Walsh, I., Walshe, M., Ni Cholmain, C. (2010). Foundation studies in education for therapy practice: curriculum updating, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedica: Special Education Issue ,62,(2),p255-259.

• McTiernan, K. & O’ Donnell, D. (2010) http://bridge-it.tchpc.tcd.ie/ Funded by the Long Room Hub, Murphy Innovation Fund 2008-2009 (€45,000). Invited Exhibition of the Lifescapes: Mapping Dublin Lives (Bridge-IT) Project Exhibited at the opening of the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, September, 2010.

• O'Donnell, D. & McTiernan, K. (2010). Storied Lives: An Exploration of Life Course Narrative Identities and the Factors Linked to Happiness in Later Life. Times of our Lives. Making Sense of: Growing up and growing old, 92, 146-159. http://www.interdisciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/times-of-our-lives/

• McTiernan, K., Leahy, M., Walsh, I., Sloane, P., Smith, M. (2007). The ‘triple jump’ assessment in problem based learning: an evaluative method used in the appraisal of both knowledge acquisition and problem solving skills in, editor(s) G. O’Neill, S. Huntley-Moore, and P. Race, Case Studies of Good Practices in Assessment of Student Learning in Higher Education, Dublin, AISHE, 2007, pp116 – 119. http://www.aishe.org/readings/2007-1/

• Walsh, I., McTiernan, K., Leahy, M. (2007). Examining students’ clinical skills: assessment of the ‘unseen’ client in a speech and language therapy clinic in, editor(s) G. O’Neill, S. Huntley-Moore, and P. Race, Case Studies of Good Practices in Assessment of Student Learning in Higher Education, Dublin, AISHE, 2007, pp16 – 20. ".  http://www.aishe.org/readings/2007-1/

• Leahy, M.M., Dodd, B.A., Walsh I.P, Murphy (McTiernan), K. (2006). Education for Practice in the UK and Ireland: Implementing problem based learning. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 58 (1), 48-54.

Teaching/Supervision

As the Psychologist in the Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies (CSLS), I coordinate and teach a number of Psychology courses related to normal communication and to communication changes related to the lifecourse.  I also teach Research Methods and Statistics and coordinate the Sophistor research project.  I am involved in the supervision of Masters and PhD students in the CSLS and in the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies.  The following courses are my primary teaching responsibilities: Social and Developmental Psychology; Cognitive Neuropsychology; Research Methods and Statistics; Counselling.

Kathleen Tiernan on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Clinical Speech and Language Studies
Room No XXXX
Trinity College
7 - 9 South Leinster Street
Dublin 2

Telephone: +353 1 896 2947
Fax: +353 1 232 1005
Email: kathleen.mctiernan@tcd.ie