TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, IRELAND
School of Psychology Research Seminar Series 2015-2016
Semester 2: January-April 2016
Venue: TCIN LB11
Wednesday January 27th, 1-2pm
Trevor Spratt, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Sprattcame to Trinity in 2014 as the AIB Professor of Childhood Research and Director of the Children’s Research Centre. He was employed in social work practice prior to working at the University of Ulster, and subsequently at Queen's University Belfast. He is a graduate of the University of Ulster, Oxford University and Queen’s. His research has focused on four areas: professional decision making, translation of social policy objectives into practice, multiple adverse childhood experiences and international trends in child protection.
Wednesday February 24th, 1-2pm
Heather Ferguson, University of Kent, UK
Dr Ferguson isa reader in cognitive psychology at the University of Kent. She previously worked as a research associate in linguistics at University College London, and completed her PhD in psychology at the University of Glasgow. Her research, currently funded by the European Research Council, examinesthe interface between cognitive processes and social interaction, including the way that we access and represent other people's perspectives during communication or imagine alternative versions of the world.
Wednesday March 9th, 1-2pm
Simon McCarthy-Jones, Trinity College Dublin
DrMcCarthy-Jones is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry in the School of Medicine. He has previously worked at Macquarie University, Sydney, and Durham University, UK. His work focusses on auditory verbal hallucinations (‘hearing voices’) including the history, meaning and phenomenology of the experience, its genetic, cognitive, neural, and psychosocial causes, as well as potential interventions for those distressed by the experience.
Wednesday March 16th, 1-2pm
Nick Yeung, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Yeung is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. His research investigates the cognitive and brain mechanisms of human attention, memory, and decision-making, with a focus on how people evaluate their choices and decisions. He is interested in the computational and neural basis of the evaluation of mistakes and their uses in guiding people’s decisions and learning.
Wednesday March 23rd, 1-2pm
Aldert Vrij, University of Portsmouth
Professor Vrij is Professor of Applied Social Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. His research is on nonverbal and verbal cues to deception and lie detection, which has been funded by various agencies including the British Research Council and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and he works closely with practitioners, including police, security services and insurers. He has published widely on deception, including his book ‘Detecting lies and deceit: pitfalls and opportunities’ (2008, Wiley).
Wednesday April 6th, 1-2pm
Amanda Fitzgerald, University College Dublin
Dr Fitzgerald is a lecturer in University College Dublin. She completed her PhD at NUIG in 2010 and worked on a cross-national research study on health behaviour in school-aged children there. She carried out post-doctoral research in UCD on a national survey on youth mental health commissioned by Headstrong, the National Centre for Youth Mental Health. Her research, which has been funded by the Irish Research Council, includes risk and resilience in youth mental health, anxiety/mood disorders, and the use of technology to promote positive mental health.