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School of Psychology

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH PROFILES

Name	Research Topic & Funding	Supervisor
Brian Bargery	Visual Consciousness and Adaptation to Visual Inversion	Dr. Mark Elliott
Cormac Ó Beaglaoich	The development and validation of a measure assessing gender role conflict (GRC) in male adolescents - funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)	Dr. Kiran Sarma
Gabriel Bourke	Interactive Educational Animation as a Technology-Enhanced Learning and Authoring Tool to Support “Learner-Driven Learning”	Dr. Tony Hall
Julie Brosnan	Supporting the Development of Emergent Literacy Skills with Children's Progress Academic Assessment & Precision Teaching - funding from The Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology, IRCSET	Dr. Mark Elliott
Rachel Carey	'Determining the psychological profile of young male drivers resilient to fear appeals and identifying the types of messages that moderate intentions to take driving risks in this audience' - with help from a bursary from the Irish Road Safety Authority.	Dr. Kiran Sarma
Ronan Conway	The Development of Adolescent Self-Regulatory and Psychosocial Capacities and their Impact on Positive Youth Development and Risk-Taking: A Longitudinal Study - Funding: College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies Child and Youth Research Doctoral Fellowship	Dr. Caroline Heary
AnnMarie Creaven	Social support relationships: transactional influences on cardiovascular reactivity in friendships and romantic relationships. - Funding Source: Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.	Dr. Brian Hughes
Siobhán Daly	A parental change to, and affirmation of, lesbian, gay or bisexual orientation: the experience and relational sequelae, as reported by the adult child.	Dr. Kiran Sarma
Chris Dwyer	'The Evaluation of Argument Mapping: Learning through Memory and Critical Thinking' - funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)	Dr. Mike Hogan
Noreen Fitzgerald	Structure of Disorganization of Hebephrenic Speech	Dr. Mark Elliott
Niamh Flynn	'Hypnosis, Neurochemical Processes, Flow State and Task Performance in athletes and other populations.'	Dr. Mark Elliott
Andrea Gibbons	The factors affecting adjustment and distress in women attending breast cancer screening - funded by a Lady Gregory Doctoral Research Fellowship	Dr. AnnMarie Groarke
Helen Gleeson	An exploration of the factors that influence young people's attitudes toward the Gardai in Ireland. A mixed methods approach.	Dr. Molly Byrne
Mark Glennon	'An electrophysiological investigation of aberrant attentional processes in schizophrenia.' - funded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology	Dr Mark Elliott
Mary Higgins
Niamh Higgins	Biased attention to emotional stimuli and cardiovascular adaptation to stress: Anxiety's impact on cardiovascular health - funded under the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) as part of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, administered by the HEA and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).	Dr. Brian Hughes
Licia Karp	CBT for pain management with chronically ill children and adolescents	Dr. Brian McGuire
Jennifer Keane	Attention, Distraction and the Effective Control of Paediatric Procedural Pain and Distress	Dr. Jane Walsh & Dr. Caroline Heary
Michelle Kelly	'Stimulus Overselectivity: An Experimental Analysis of Correlating Variables and Remediation Strategies across Populations' - funded by the Galway Doctoral Research Fellowship Scheme of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies, NUI, Galway.	Dr. Geraldine Leader
Lisa Ann Kennedy	Ethnic Identity and Acculturation among Adolescent Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Ireland: A Qualitative Exploration - funded by a Child and Youth Research Doctoral Fellowship	Dr. Padraig MacNeela
Eimear Lee	Individual differences in situational and personality-related variables: The relationship with stress and health. - Funded under the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) as part of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, administered by the HEA and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).	Dr. Brian Hughes
Helena Lydon	A Systematic Evaluation of Behavioural Intervention and Sensory Integration Therapy Techniques for Children with Autism	Dr. Olive Healy
John McCaffrey	The Evaluation of Alcohol-Related Harm among University Students	Dr. Padraig MacNeela
Lorraine McDonagh	Male Sexual Dysfunction and Related Resiliency Factors - funded under the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) as part of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, administered by the HEA.	Dr. Todd Morrison & Dr. Ian Stewart
Aoife McTiernan	Measured Effects of Fluency Training across Multiple Populations	Dr. Geraldine Leader & Dr. Olive Healy
Brian Merriman	Investigating interactions between children and practitioners - funded by the Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Child and Family Research Centre, NUI, Galway.	Dr. Caroline Heary
Siri Ming	Conversational Generativity in the Language Development of Children with Autism	Dr. Ian Stewart
Laura Moran	Testing and Developing a Protocol for the Training and Assessment of Relational Precursors and Abilities - with help from a School of Psychology Research Scholarship (2010)	Dr. Ian Stewart
Paul Mulcahy	Perceptual Measures of Aesthetic Appreciation	Dr. Mark Elliott
Ruaidhri Mulveen	Obesity and barriers to physical activity and healthy diet in people with an intellectual disability in Ireland.	Dr. Jane Walsh & Dr. Brian McGuire
Clodagh Murray	Operant variability: An experimental analysis of consequential control over response variation. - funded by a School of Psychology Research Scholarship for 2010	Dr. Olive Healy
Claire O'Driscoll	Peer stigmatization of psychological difficulties in childhood and adolescence: An investigation into implicit and explicit public stigma towards peers with ADHD and depression - This research is funded by the Health Research Board (HRB)	Dr. Caroline Heary
Susan O'Flanagan	Testing the efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) intervention for Prolonged Grief Disorder - funding from the Irish Hospice Foundation, Thérèse Brady Scholarship	Dr. Brian McGuire & Dr. Kiran Sarma
Éanna O'Leary	Effects of sleep loss on ambulatory and laboratory psychophysiological function and psychosocial well-being - Funded under the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) as part of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, administered by the HEA and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).	Prof. Jack James
Daniel Regan	Attitudes towards Non-Drinkers: Their association with problem drinking - funded by Lady Gregory Fellowship	Dr. Denis O'Hora & Dr. Todd Morrison
Jón Sigurjonsson	Electrophysiological activity during stimulus class formation	Dr. Denis O'Hora
Brian Slattery	Modelling and training categorization using a relational frame approach	Dr. Ian Stewart
Triona Tammemagi	Dynamic Analyses of Goal-Directed Behaviour - Funding from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS).	Dr. Denis O'Hora
Deirdre Twomey	’Electrophysiological Correlates of Visual Hallucinations’ - funded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.	Dr. Mark Elliott
Deirdre Walsh	Post Traumatic Growth in Cancer: An examination of the ’reconnection with the physical self’ in patients with prostate cancer - Funding by a Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship from College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway.	Dr. AnnMarie Groarke

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