Prof Orla Muldoon

I am currently managing an ERC Advanced grant that explores whether adversity, trauma and its psychological consequences are driven by social identity change; a project central to GroWTH.

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I am a social psychologist which means that I am interested in how social contexts and in particular social systems and structures can shape behaviour, attitudes and health.

I am specifically interested in understanding group memberships (e.g. race, social class, gender), shared identification and mental health, prejudice, discrimination, trauma and power.

I regularly contribute to new media and offer opinion editorials in the Irish Times. I am a current member of the Irish Research Council and serve on the Behaviour and communications committee advising the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET)

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