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LAUNCH OF UCD RESILIENCE & HEALTH LAB Congratulations to CHiLD member, Dr Niki Nearchou, Assistant Professor with the School of Psychology, for establishing the UCD Resilience & Health Lab. •The Lab is a nexus of generating research on understanding the complex … Continue reading →

PUBLICATIONS ·Taylor, L.K., & McKeown, S. (in press). Adolescent outgroup helping, collective action, and political activism in a setting of protracted conflict. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. ·Motyer, G., Kiely, P. & Fitzgerald, A. (2021). Adolescents’ Experiences of Idiopathic Scoliosis in the Presurgical Period: A … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the following CHiLD members on their recent publications! 1. Moran, D., & Taylor, L. K. (in press). Outgroup prosocial behaviour among children and adolescents in conflict settings. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2. O Reilly, A., McKenna, N., & Fitzgerald, A. (2021). Measuring goal … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the following CHiLD members on their recent achievements! 1. Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE) has been included in the 2021 European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap – marking it among the highest quality and most … Continue reading →

This month we welcome 2 new CHilD members from the UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science: Dr. Jenny Kavanagh & Ohood Alharbi Congratulations to the following CHiLD members on their recent achievements! Rachel Farrell (School of Education) … Continue reading →

This month we welcome 2 new CHilD student members: Katie Hill and Martina Kennedy from the UCD School of Nursing UCD School of Midwifery and Health Systems Congratulations to the following CHiLD members on their recent achievements! FUNDING: •Dympna Devine … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the following CHiLD members on their recent achievements! FUNDING: 1. Three CHiLD members have been awared IRC Employment-Based Postgraduate Programme awards: Jennifer Symonds (UCD School of Education): €24,000 from Irish Research Council for project entitled An Irish National Study … Continue reading →

This month we have welcomed 3 new CHilD members: Dr. Flavia Santos from the UCD School of Psychology Dr. Maebh Harding from the UCD Sutherland School of Law Dr. Joseph Mooney from the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work … Continue reading →

Welcome to the first UCD CHiLD ‘Monthly Memo’. Below we highlight some of the recent achievements of our members. Congratulations to the following  CHiLD members on their recent achievements: Chris Jepsen from the School of Economics whose paper on the … Continue reading →

The Annual UCD CHiLD conference took place on 11th December 2020. It was a fantastic morning attracting over 70 participants with talks across multiple disciplines. Video presentations from the webinar are now available here

The UCD CHiLD annual research conference takes place on Friday 11th December, 9.20-13.00. The theme of this year’s conference is ”The Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Health and Development”. Please click here to register. 

As part of UCD’s UCD Healthy Eating Week – the UCD Nutrition Society, in partnership with the UCD CHilD-RC will be running a healthy eating workshop for parents. This workshop will take a practical look at the healthy eating guidelines for … Continue reading →

The UCD Childhood and Human Development Research Centre is pleased to host the first in a series of monthly lunchtime seminars. The first seminar will take place on Monday 17th February at 1pm in the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy seminar room. … Continue reading →