School of Psychology Awards Ceremony 2025
The following medals were awarded on 4 Dec 2025 and are based on the academic year 2024/25.
The Ciarán Benson Medal for best essay by a final year student: Isabelle Leahy
The Essay Writing Medal for best essay by a 2nd year BSc or 1st year HDip Psychology student: Bella Phillips
The Michael Nolan Medal for best final year Research and Project skills: Tara Burns
The Aidan P. Moran Medal for Research design and Analysis: Emma Casey
The Deirdre Keegan Medal for best mature student in the BSc Psychology: Hannah Grace O'Gorman
The Eamonn Feichín O'Doherty Medal for best student on the HDip Psychology: Tara Burns
The Professional Sensitivity Medal MPsychSc: Nyanada Patil
The MSc in Disability Prize for Best Performance: Bryn Healy
The Behavioural Neuroscience Medal for best student in the MSc Behavioural Neuroscience: Cameron McCabe
The Éilis Hennessy Medal for best student in the Masters in Psychological Science: Olivia Therese Rowe
The Best Thesis Medal MPsychSc: Niall Hogan
We were honoured to have Dr Niall Muldoon, Ombudsman for Children and an alumnus of the UCD School of Psychology, present the awards this year.