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Nuala Brady

Associate Professor
Visual Perception & Cognition, Social cognition: face recognition, perception of biological motion, perception and action

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Jessica Bramham

Professor
Clinical neuropsychology; Neuropsychiatry; Adulthood ADHD and comorbidities; Social cognition


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Méadhbh Brosnan

Assistant Professor
Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Brain Plasticity, Resilience, Cognitive Reserve, Ageing, Stroke, Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Alan Carr

Full Professor Of Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychology, Positive Psychology, Couple and Family Therapy


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Sarah Cooney

Assistant Professor - Ad Astra Fellow
Body representation in health and disorder; Body image; Multisensory perception; Embodiment

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Paul D'Alton

Associate Professor
Mindfulness, clinical interventions in healthcare settings, psycho-social oncology



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Sonya Deschênes

Assistant Professor -Ad Astra Fellow
Health psychology; comorbidity between mental and physical health conditions and the biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying these associations; mental health epidemiology

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Barbara Dooley

Barbara Dooley

Professor & Deputy Registrar
Adolescent Mental Health; Body Image in Adolescents; Clinical evaluation of CBT programmes; Eating Disorders; First episode


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Dr Michelle Downes

Michelle Downes

Associate Professor
Paediatric neuropsychology, executive functioning, preschool, task development, childhood disorders, sleep, early brain and behaviour development, sickle cell

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Amanda Fitzgerald

Associate Professor
Youth mental health, risk and resilience factors related to mental health, appearance-related issues in adolescents, cognitive training programmes for adolescence

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Keith Gaynor

Keith Gaynor

Associate Professor
Senior Clinical Psychologist Adult Mental Health; Psychological Therapies; Psychosis, Emotional Dysregulation, Loneliness, Trauma

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Katie Gilligan-Lee


Developmental and Cognitive Psychology; Educational Neuroscience; Cognitive Intervention; Spatial Cognition; Mathematics and STEM Achievement; Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Ciara Greene

Associate Professor
Cognitive processes of attention and working memory; Neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI and processes by factors, including genetic variants and emotional state.

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Suzanne Guerin

Professor
Applied health and well being, Applied research and evaluation and Teaching and academic development


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Eilis Hennessy

Professor
Stigma, bias and discrimination experienced by children and adolescents with chronic health problems, in particular, mental health and behavioural problems.

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Sara Hollwey

Director of Personal and Professional Development
Clinical supervision, Integrative Psychotherapy, Self-Reflective Practice, Organizational Psychology

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Mary Ivers

Laboratory Manager
My research specialization is in Psycho-oncology, particularly Cancer Survivorship and Rehabilitation and the development of Information Resources

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Klaus Kessler

Full Professor
Affective, Behavioural and Cognitive (ABC) Neuroscience




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Dr Christine Linehan

Christine Linehan

Associate Professor
Disability, intellectual disability, epilepsy and neuro-epidemiology.



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Kathy Looney

Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology
Child and adolescent mental health, paediatric obesity, stigma, mechanisms of change in clinical interventions

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Louise McHugh

Louise McHugh

Professor & Head of School
Experimental analysis of language and cognition from a behaviour analytic and Relational Frame Theory perspective

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Jacintha McLaughlin

Senior Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Placement Coordinator. Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology, relational development, early life trauma, integrative psychotherapy, infant mental health

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Niki Nearchou

Associate Professor
Resilience & risk; youth mental & sexual health; chronic illness and stigma across lifespan


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Professor Gary O'Reilly

Gary O'Reilly

Professor
Clinical Psychology Technology Assisted Evidenced Based Mental Interventions Forensic Psychology


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Mick O'Connell

Associate Professor
Social psychology, mass media, economic psychology and social class, individual differences, educational outcomes, intergroup hostility

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Dr Cliódhna O'Connor

Cliódhna O' Connor

Associate Professor
Social relations; identity and self-concept; psychiatric diagnosis; public beliefs about mental illness; public engagement with science; biological essentialism;

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Monika Pilch

Assistant Professor
Advance care planning, ageing, pain, population health, service and intervention development, behavior change, applied research and evaluation

Brendan Rooney

Brendan Rooney

Assistant Professor
The interaction of (social) cognitive and emotional processes. Specifically in the context of media, technology, and entertainment; Issues in research design, me

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Flávia Santos

Assistant Professor, Ad Astra Fellow
Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Neurodevelopment, Memory & Numerical Cognition



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Laura K. Taylor

Associate Professor
Political conflict, prosocial behaviours, intergroup relations, social identity, helping, children and families, risk and resilience processes, shared education.

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