Psychology
College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies,
School of Psychology
Course overview
The School of Psychology offers both PhD and MLitt degrees in a wide range of research areas, completed primarily on the basis of a research thesis.
Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their programme of study and to provide on-going support to their research.
For the four-year Structured PhD programme, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules which are directly relevant to the student’s research.
Candidates should have obtained a degree qualification in psychology to at least Upper Second Class Honours level (or equivalent international qualification). Admission to a research degree is at the discretion of the potential Supervisor and Director of Research, and is based on a proposal from the applicant following discussion with the member of staff whose academic area of interest is most appropriate.
Programmes available
Structured PhD (Psychology), full-time
PhD (Psychology), full-time
PhD (Psychology), part-time
MLitt (Psychology), full-time
MLitt (Psychology), part-time
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
Areas of interest
- Forensic clinical psychology; suicide and parasuicidal behaviour; psychopathy; actuarial and clinical risk assessment; offending behaviour.
- Health promotion; coronary heart disease; primary care; health behaviour change, communication in health care settings; blood donation.
- Stress-illness relationship; cognitivebehavioural interventions with patients with breast cancer; psychoneuroimmunology.
- Psychological time and process psychophysics and their relation to consciousness. Cognitive dysmetria as applied to any disorder, especially schizophrenia.
- llness cognitions and health outcomes; coping and adjustment in chronic illness; self-management interventions for chronically ill patients.
- Child health psychology; children's experiences including their understanding of psychological problems; child-centred research methodology.
- Developmental psychology; cognitive aging; performance psychology; electrophysiological windows into brain functioning; happiness.
- Psychological aspects of stress, in particular psychophysiological and cardiovascular reactivity. Individual differences and psychosocial factors that moderate stress responsivity.
- Laboratory studies in health psychology,including blood pressure regulation, psychophysiological aspects of stress, and addictive processes; behavioural epidemiology.
- Pain and its management; rehabilitation and illness; utilisation of health services.
- Derived stimulus relations in adults and young children; applied behaviour analysis and autism; applications of behavioural principles in the treatment of autism.
- Rehabilitation of acquired brain injury; management of chronic pain; abnormal illness behaviour. symptom magnification and malingering; learning disability and challenging behaviour.
Researcher profiles
See http://www.nuigalway.ie/psychology/staff_acad.htm for information on research interests of staff in the School of Psychology.
Find out more
School of Psychology
T +353 91 493 101
E psychology@nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/psychology
PAC code
Structured PhD (full-time)
GYG25
PhD (full-time) GYB70
PhD (part-time) GYB71
MLitt (full-time) GYB72
MLitt (part-time) GYB73
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