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Sarah Cooney

Assistant Professor - Ad Astra Fellow
Cognitive neuroscience, Educational neuroscience, Body perception in health and disorder,Individual differences in perception and cognition

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Sonya Deschênes

Assistant Professor -Ad Astra Fellow
Health psychology; comorbidity between mental and physical health conditions and the biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying these associations; mental health epidemiology

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Michelle Downes

Associate Professor
Paediatric neuropsychology, executive functioning, preschool, task development, childhood disorders, sleep, early brain and behaviour development, sickle cell

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Amanda Fitzgerald

Associate Professor
Youth mental health, risk and resilience factors related to mental health, appearance-related issues in adolescents, cognitive training programmes for adolescence

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Katie Gilligan-Lee


Developmental and Cognitive Psychology; Educational Neuroscience; Cognitive Intervention; Spatial Cognition; Mathematics and STEM Achievement; Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Ciara Greene

Associate Professor
Cognitive processes of attention and working memory; Neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI and processes by factors, including genetic variants and emotional state.

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Jacintha McLaughlin

Senior Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Placement Coordinator. Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology, relational development, early life trauma, integrative psychotherapy, infant mental health

Fiona O'Donnell

Teaching Fellow Mindfulness
MSc Mindfulness-Based interventions, Graduate psychologist, PSI member, UMAAP and Mindfulness-Based Facilitator .

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Cliódhna O' Connor

Associate Professor
Social relations; identity and self-concept; psychiatric diagnosis; public beliefs about mental illness; public engagement with science; biological essentialism;

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Brendan Rooney

Assistant Professor
The interaction of (social) cognitive and emotional processes. Specifically in the context of media, technology, and entertainment; Issues in research design, me

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Laura K. Taylor

Associate Professor
Political conflict, prosocial behaviours, intergroup relations, social identity, helping, children and families, risk and resilience processes, shared education.

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