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 |