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New MSc Environmental Psychology - open for applications
The new MSc in Environmental Psychology (PAC code : MHW56) aims to ensure graduates develop a critical understanding of how our actions shape the world and how our environments impact upon us.
Date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
Innovative social exercise intervention for adults 65+ in Maynooth Town: we are recruiting!
A few weeks ago on 103.2 Dublin City FM radio, Carmen Élise Pocknell, a second year PhD student working with Richard Roche and Sean Commins, discussed the importance that lifestyle can have on our brains, how essential it is to stay active, and - even more importantly - that it is never too late to make a change.
Date: Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Government announces €1.2m in funding to STEM Passport for Inclusion
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD, and Minister for Education Norma Foley TD, have announced €1.2 million in funding to extend the STEM Passport for Inclusion project.
Date: Tuesday, 03 January 2023
MU lecturers receive Irish Research Council Research Ally Award
Maynooth University academics have received IRC Research Ally honours in the IRC Researcher of the Year Awards 2022.
Date: Friday, 16 December 2022
Student Prize Winners in the Department of Psychology
We are delighted to celebrate the recent successes of our graduates across programmes in the Department of Psychology.
Date: Tuesday, 06 December 2022
Professor Sinead McGilloway recently announced as joint winner of the SPARKS 2022 competition which was held as part of Research Week.
Professor Sinead McGilloway was recently announced as joint winner of the SPARKS 2022 competition which was held as part of MU Research Week.
Date: Monday, 14 November 2022
CMHCR team wins prestigious international award from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, for their 'PRIMERA' research on family mental health'.
The PRIMERA (Promoting Research and Innovation in Mental hEalth seRvices for fAmilies) research team - based in the Centre for Mental Health and Community Research and led by Professor Sinéad McGilloway - have been awarded the Lionel Hersov Memorial Award 2022 by the (UK) Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH).
Date: Thursday, 10 November 2022
Research Postgraduate Success
Congratulations to several of our recent Postgraduate researchers who have passed final examinations
Date: Thursday, 30 June 2022
Over 40% of Irish adults have a mental health disorder and one in ten have attempted suicide – MU, NCI and Trinity College research
People with a mental health disorder were five times more likely than those without to have attempted suicide.
Date: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
MU research recommends ‘family’ approach within mental health services
New research by the Maynooth University Centre for Mental Health and Community Research has recommended the development of a ‘whole of family’ approach within mental health services, including automatic consideration of children when a parent has a mental health illness.
Date: Tuesday, 17 May 2022