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, Kristin | 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. HOWLIN, Claire | Music Cognition, Neuroaesthetics, Identity and Social Inclusion |
| Dr. COSMA, Alina | Adolescent Health and Developmental, Cross-cultural differences, Global health, Mental health |
| Dr. BUTLIN, Ben | The conceptualisation of mental disorders, and the care of children in care |
Over the past 3 years principal investigators have secured €8m in funding from agencies such as:
- Enterprise Ireland
- European Commission
- Irish Research Council
- Science Foundation Ireland
- Southside Partnership DLR
- USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
- Elrha
Postdoctoral research fellows have been successful in securing €1.5m in funding from agencies such as:
- Enterprise Ireland
- Science Foundation Ireland
- European Commission
- Home Office UK
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 |