Ms Niamh Higgins, BA, H Dip Psych
ISSP CROLS Scholar

Contact Details E-mail address: n.niuiginn1nuigalway.ie Phone: 091 495639 Office: Room 107 Cois Abhann

Third Level Education
H. Dip (Psych) NUI Galway 2008
B.A. Arts degree (Psychological Studies and Irish) NUI Galway 2007

University Awards
Niamh was awarded a scholarship from the Centre for Research on Occupational and Life Stress (CROLS), under the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP), to undertake a Ph.D. in the area of stress, health and well-being in 2008.

Supervisor
Dr Brian M. Hughes

Research Interests
Niamh is primarily interested in the area of health psychology. Her PhD research focuses on the impact of cognition, personality and psychosocial variables on psychological and physiological health, in particular cardiovascular health.  Specifically, it examines a cognitive model of anxiety reactivity which states that the interpretation of ambiguous stimuli as negative/threatening results in elevated anxiety reactivity.  The working title of her PhD research is “The causal role of interpretive bias in cardiovascular reactivity to stress: Influence of personality and psychosocial factors”.  In addition, Niamh is currently a co-researcher on an NUI Galway research project investigating the effects of cognitive tasks that stimulate the left prefrontal cortex on mood and the incidence of cold symptoms.

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