People
Organising Committee
James Green (chair)
James is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Senior Lecturer with the School of Allied Health, and a core member of the Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster (Health Research Institute), both at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His is the Honorary Treasurer of the PSI Division of Health Psychology. He currently leads the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and Department of Transport funded ISCycle project, which aims to produce lasting modal shift from private car to ebikes.
Ann-Marie Creaven
Ann-Marie is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Limerick. Ann-Marie’s research is focused on understanding how people cope with stressful events and contexts and how our social connections influence coping processes. In addition to her research and teaching at UL, Ann-Marie is developing a mini-module in psychology for transition year students, supported by Science Foundation Ireland.
Louise Foley
Louise is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Inclusive Sustainable Cycling (ISCycle) project at University of Limerick. Louise completed her PhD at the School of Psychology, University of Galway in 2022 as part of a Health Research Board Collaborative Doctoral Award in Multimorbidity and the Structured Population health, Policy and Health-services Research Education (SPHeRE) PhD Programme. With a background in health psychology, Louise is interested in understanding and changing health-related behaviours. At ISCycle this includes researching active travel behaviours and promoting more regular and inclusive use of sustainable transport modes through electric bicycle loans.
Emma Kirwan
Emma is an Irish Research Council funded PhD candidate at the University of Limerick. Emma is a graduate of the MSc. Health Psychology at the University of Galway. Her research interests broadly focus on social connection and mental health in young, or emerging, adulthood (18 to 25 years), and she is particularly interested in the experience of loneliness. Emma’s PhD research aims to better understand loneliness and what contributes to the risk of loneliness in young adulthood.
Maire McGeehan
Máire is a PhD student with the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick. Máire completed an MSc in Health Psychology with the School of Psychology, University of Galway in 2020. With a background in health services research, Máire is interested in understanding the factors associated with personality trait differences in health and mortality outcomes.