Teaching and Supervision

Modules Taught | Supervision

Modules Taught

Undergraduate Teaching – current modules (full list of all past modules available upon request)

  • PS124 Social Psychology
  • PS341 Introduction to Collaborative Enquiry and Applied Systems Science
  • PS342 Introduction to Positive Psychology
  • PS3115 Community Psychology and Social Justice

Postgraduate Teaching – modules available to Structured PhD Students

  • PS466 Structural Equation Modeling
  • PS525 Critical Thinking and Critical Thinking Technologies
  • PS531 Skill Theory and Skill development


Supervision

  • Doctoral Students, (Completed)
    • Ann Colleran, DClin Student. Who Asked You? Young people identify ways to make first level mental health supports accessible. (co-supervisor with Dr. Anne O’Connor)
    • Rob Razzante, PhD Student (Arizona State University). Co-Creating an Inclusive Workplace. (co-supervisor with Dr. Sarah Tracy, Dr. Benjamin Broome & Dr. Devika Chawla).
    • Monika Pilch, PhD Student (Trinity College Dublin). Facilitating Readiness for advance care planning in Ireland: Informing the design of a health change intervention for middle-aged and older people in the community (co-supervisor with Dr. Catherine Hayes, Trinity College Dublin)
    • Jiani Ma, PhD Student (Coventry University and Deakin University). Unpacking the ‘black box’: Implementation evaluation of interventions to improve motor skill competence in children and adolescents (in collaboration with Dr. Michael Duncan, Coventry University).
    • Owen Harney, PhD. Systems thinking and systems science education: The design and evaluation of a new systems science educational tool. NUI Galway Arts faculty funding
    • Christopher Noone, PhD. An analysis of the effects of mindfulness on executive function and critical thinking. NUI Galway Arts faculty funding
    • Jenny Groarke, PhD. An analysis of the effects of music listening on physiological and psychological functioning in younger and older adults. IRC Funding
    • Morteza RazaeiZadeh, PhD Student. Developing an effective model for promoting entrepreneurial competencies in Higher Education students facilitated by virtual education (co-supervisor with Dr. John O’Reilly). Iranian Government Funding
    • Christopher Dwyer, PhD student. An Examination of the effects of Argument Mapping on memory, comprehension, and Critical Thinking Performance. (with Dr.Ian Stewart). IRCHSS funding
    • Haulie Dowd, DPsychSc. Mindfulness and chronic pain: The development and pilot testing of an online MBCT intervention (with Dr. Brian McGuire and Dr. Kiran Sarma)
    • Joanne O’Halloran, DPsychSc. An evaluation of the efficacy of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy and Sonas group interventions for people with moderate dementia
    • Rosemary Fish, PhD. Measuring and Modelling Acceptance in Chronic Pain (co-supervisor with Dr. Brian McGuire and Dr. Ian Stewart). NUI Galway Arts faculty funding.
    • Michael Keane, PhD. Effects of dietary caffeine on topographic EEG taking account of withdrawal and withdrawal reversal with and without sleep restriction (co-supervisor with Professor Jack James).
    • Kate Burke, DPsychSc. Romantic Relationships in Older Adulthood: Understanding the complexities of romantic relationship satisfaction across the lifespan.
    • Ronan Conway, PhD. Positive Youth Development: Developing a Theoretical Model of the Regulatory Capacities of Adolescents that Impact Positive Youth Behaviours and Risk Behaviours (co-supervisor with Dr. Caroline Heary). IRCHSS funding
    • Claire McMoreland, DPsychSc. A lifespan perspective on wellbeing in Ireland (co-supervisor with Dr. Jane Walsh).
  • Doctoral Students, (Current)
    • Eric Van Lente, PhD Student. Mindfulness, Oneness self-perception and Well-being. NUI Galway Arts faculty funding.
    • Louisa Klatt, PhD Student.  Writing a Constitution for Mars. IRC Funding. (co-supervisor with Dr. John Dannaher and Dr. Rebecca Braun).