Research Projects and News

Perceptual Training in Older Adults

13 Nov

We are investigating how perceptual temporal efficiency can be improved in older adults using multisensory integration.
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Taking [A]Part

13 Nov

Taking [A]Part is a long-term, ongoing collaboration with colleagues at Open Lab, University of Newcastle, UK
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Grassroots Wavelengths Project

12 Nov

Grassroots Wavelengths is a EU H2020 ICT programme funded project that involves collaboration with academic, community and industry partners in Madeira, Edinburgh, Cork and the Black Sea region of Romania
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Older adults and the lived environment

12 Nov

The aim of this project is to define and measure the characteristics of our outdoor lived environment which can support cognitive healthy ageing.
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Dementia Care in Community

12 Nov

Dementia Care in Community is an interconnected series of Irish Research Council funded PhD participative projects that used participatory action research, ethnography, and design-led enquiry
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Multisensory Perception

12 Nov

We live in a multisensory world. Every day, we are constantly combining information from our different sensory organs to form a coherent experience
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Psychological processes and interventions in children with chronic illness – a family resilience approach

12 Nov

Involving children with congenital heart disease, epilepsy, brain injury and cancer, our work has elucidated behavioural and neurodevelopmental phenotypes associated with such diseases. It has highlighted an often greater role for family functioning in determining outcomes for children than disease factors and severity.
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