I am Head of School of Psychology at Queen's University Belfast, and Prof of Psychology at University of Limerick. My area of expertise is psychological trauma and I have a European Research Council Award on the social identity basis of psychological trauma.

My latest book is The Social Psychology of Trauma: Connecting the Personal and the Political, published by Cambridge University Press (2024)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-psychology-of-trauma/802E7593368D3B37AE5AD725083B84D4

Experience

  • –present
    Prof of Psychology, University of Limerick

Education

  • 1996 
    Queens University Belfast, PhD Psychology

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