This year a total of seven PhD researchers and one post-doctoral researcher visiting from Belgium presented some of their work. It included one student, Rachel Brown, who had recently successfully defended her VIVA Voce. Each student had a twenty-minute time slot to present, which included a five-minute question and answer slot at the end.
The presentations represented researchers at different levels in their academic journey and across the three research pillars of psychology in the department: Pillar 1, Brain, behaviour and cognition; Pillar 2: Mental & physical health, wellbeing and inclusion; and Pillar 3: Organisations, systems, technology and society.
There was time for some social interaction with some light refreshments at the end. The seminar was deemed a success with many positive comments from both participants and audience members alike. A longer session may be required in future as the session ran over time due to many interesting questions from the audience.
The full line up of presentations included;
- Niamh Petrie (Supervisors Dr Joanna McHugh Power and Dr Sadhbh Byrne) “Designing Age Friendly Housing: Space, Access and Social Connection.”
- Jennifer Deane-King (supervisor Dr Rebecca Maguire) “Smoking to Vaping - “I wanted to fit in with the cool kids and it’s cheaper than cigarettes.”
- Dr Yvonne Visser (KULeuven University, Belgium) collaborating with Dr Peter Murphy “Achieving Metacognitive Insight into Latent Decision-Making Parameters.”
- Tessa Kingston (supervisors Dr Joanne McVeigh, Prof Mac MacLachlan and Dr Tadhg MacIntyre) “The Use of Sailing as a Therapeutic Intervention.”
- Marcus Broughill (supervisors Prof. Philip Hyland and Prof. Sean Commins) “Traumatic Memories Are Directly Associated with Depression and Anxiety, Independent of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.”
- Carina Kaufmann (supervisors Prof. Bryan Roche and Dr. Jamie Cummins) “Relational Frame Theory and the Reconceptualisation of Intelligence.”
- Rachel Brown (supervisor Dr Michael Cooke) “The Practice of Mental Health: Class Habitus, Discourse and the Symbolic Framing of Subjectivity.”
- Maria Molloy (supervisors Prof. Louise Connell and Dr. Dermot Lynott) “Measuring Emotion is Hard.”
