Mary Pat O'Malley-keighran

Lecturer & Acting Head of Discipline
Tel:  353-91-495018
Email:  marypat.omalleynuigalway.ie

Background and Qualifications

Mary Pat O'Malley-Keighran is a Lecturer in Speech and Language Pathology. She was formerly a lecturer in the School of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She has worked as a speech and language therapist with the Midland Health Board, the Children's Hospital in Temple Street, Dublin and the Specialist Education Services in Auckland, New Zealand. She has also worked as a clinical supervisor for speech and language therapists in training and as a research assistant in projects related to alternative and augmentative communication, Irish language acquisition (the Lesser Used Languages Project), and the International Corpus of Standard English. She completed an M.Litt. in 2001: Discourse, Silence, and Contemporary Childbirth Culture: Interaction at an Irish Midwives' Antenatal Clinic. She is currenlty working on her Ph.D which examines discourses of cosmetic enhancement in Irish Print and television media.

Teaching Responsibilities

Year Co-ordinator of Year 2.

Teaching responsibilities include:

• Year 1: Linguistics & Communication Impairments, Phonetics/Phonology
• Year 2: Clinical Linguistics, Developmental Speech and Language Impairments
• Year 3: Bilingualism and Communication Impairments, Discourse Analysis
• Year 4: Discourse Analysis

Membership

• Programme Development Committee
• Clinical Placement Committee
• IASLT Continuing Professional Development Committee
• Multiculturalism SIG
• Departmental Disability Officer
• Chairperson of the departmental Research Committee

Research Interests

Her current research interests include: discourses of cosmetic enhancement in the Irish media, bilingualism, disability and the media (radio in particular, multiculturalism and speech and language therapy (attitudes and experiences), student attitudes to people with communication disorders, clinical interactions and language development and disorders of adolescence.

Publications

Healy, J., Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P. & Antonijevic, S. (2010). Preparing health care workers for a bilingual and multicultural context: learning from an undergraduate speech and language therapy programme.  Translocations, 6 (1) ( http://www.translocations.ie/volume6_issue1.html).

Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P., O'Connor, P. & Monaghan, U. (2010). 'It's just so lovely to hear him talking': Exploring the early-intervention expectations and experiences of parents. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010 26: 61-76.

O'Malley, M.P. (2010). 'So either you have a foetal monitor or you have your waters broken, basically is it?': Articulating maternity care policy at a midwives' ante-natal clinic. Language Policy, 9, 87-96.

O'Malley, M.P. (2010). Exploring gender and power in clinical encounters. In Fourie, R. (ed). Therapeutic processes for communication disorders - a guide for clinicians and students. London: Psychology press.

O'Malley, M.P. (2009). Falling between frames: institutional discourse and disability in radio. Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 41(2), 346-356.

O'Malley, M.P. (2008). Voices of Disability on the Radio. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Volume 43, Supplement 1 pp. 18-29.

Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P., O.Connor, P. & Monaghan, U. (2008). "I assume that we wouldn't be interfering": parents' experiences of early intervention. Physical Therapy Reviews, 13, 2.

O'Malley, M.P. (2008). 'Any lumps or bumps up top?'. Discourse and Silence in Ante-natal Care.  Teanga.

O'Malley, M.P. (2005). "Silence as a means of preserving the status quo: the case of ante-natal care in Ireland." Multilingua 24-1/2.

O'Malley, M.P. (2003).  Mulling over Moldova - one therapist's experience.  Update. (July 2003). Dublin: I.A.S.L.T.

Presentations

O'Malley, M.P. (2008). "You do not know the dark places that we have been to": people who are visibly different and the media.  Appearance Matters 3, The Cente for Appearance Research, University of West England, Bristol (July 2008).

Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P., O'Connor, P. & Monaghan, U. (2008). "I assume that we wouldn't be interfering"; parents' experiences of early intervention' 4th Rehabilitation Therapy and Research Society Annual Conference (RSCI Dublin- June 2008).

O'Malley, M.P. (2008). "I'm young inside and I wanted to feel young on the outside too".  The construction of irish women's bodies in the media.  Irish Association for Applied Linguistics IRAAL. Posgraduate Symposium, Applied Language Centre, UCD (May 2008).

O'Malley, M.P. (2007). Making the Body Beautiful. School of Health Sciences seminar series.  NUI Galway (October 2007).

O'Malley, M.P. (2006). " 'Yes I am disabled, so what?'  Radio, Discourse, and Disability."  Presentation at the International Round Table Discussion on Clinical Disourse Perspective on Clinical Discourse:  Means to ends in text and talk.'  Wicklow, Ireland (May 2006).

O'Malley, M.P. (2005). " Any lumps or bumps up top?" Discourse & Silence in ante-natal Care. Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin (May 2005).

O'Malley, M.P. (2002). "Silence as a means of preserving the status quo: the case of ante-natal care in Ireland."8th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (July 2002).

O'Malley, M.P. (2002). "Redressing the balance - defining conversational activity at an ante-natal clinic from women's perspective." School of Nursing & Midwifery University of Dublin T.C.D Conference (November, 2002).

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