Mr Eanna O'Leary, BA, H Dip Psych
ISSP CROLS Scholar

Contact Details E-mail address:  e.oleary2nuigalway.ie Phone: 091 495639 Office: Room 107 Cois Abhann

University Awards
Eanna O’ Leary became a member of ISSP in September 2008 having received a Ph.D. research scholarship, funded under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) as part of the ISSP Programme, Knowledge, Innovation, Space and Society.  This was preceded by the award of a B. A. Degree in English and Psychological Studies (International) from NUI, Galway & University of Malta, and postgraduate Higher Diploma in Psychology, also at NUI Galway.

Supervisor
Professor Jack E. James

Research Interests
Eanna’s main research interests focus broadly on the areas of both health and clinical psychology, including physiological correlates of stress responses in occupational and life contexts and the psychosocial, cognitive and dispositional moderators of ill-health.  He also has interests in psychoneuroimmunological processes related to disease progression.  His undergraduate research was conducted on the effects of personality and video-relayed social evaluation on laboratory hemodynamic reactivity.  Eanna’s Ph.D. research is currently being conducted under the auspices of the Centre for Research on Occupational and Life Stress (CROLS) at NUI, Galway, focusing on psychosocial and psychophysiological influences on health.  This work utilises an ambulatory assessment methodology in the measurement of blood pressure and self-report data to examine stress-related response patterns over 24-hour periods of time, beginning with an examination of the effects of sleep restriction on ambulatory cardiovascular and subjective responding relating to environmental stressors.  Eanna is also currently working as co-researcher on an NUI, Galway project, investigating the effects of cognitive processing tasks which stimulate the left-prefrontal cortex on mood and the incidence of cold-symptoms. 

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