Impact & Innovation: School of Applied Psychology 60th Anniversary

Registration

Registration is now open for everyone to the Impact & Innovation conference. We are very excited to welcome you to this very special event celebrating 60 Years of the School of Applied Psychology in UCC.

The event takes place on Friday the 26th of September, 2025, at Devere Hall, Áras Na Mac Léinn, University College Cork Main Campus, College Road, Cork.

Attendees can register for morning or afternoon sessions, or for the whole day (see below for the conference schedule).

Please Note: Registration for this Conference is free. However, it is important to register for catering purposes

Conference Schedule

10:00	Welcome and President's Address
9:30	Registration and Coffee
10:10	Children, Healthy Ageing and Development
	Individual, community and environment: An integrated approach to healthy and active ageing Jason Chan, Annalisa Setti, Fiadhnait O’Keefe, Marica Cassarino Translating knowledge into action – family focused interventions improve outcomes for children with chronic illness and disability Chris McCusker Biology, emotions and transitions: moving ideas to research and practice in adolescent wellbeing Samantha Dockay Values, principles and practice: PPI and engaged research practices in Applied Psychology Maria Dempsey, Samantha Dockray, Kim Keating, Marica Cassarino, Annalisa Setti, Angela Veale
11:10	Coffee Break and Poster Display
11:30	Mental Health and Wellbeing / Collective Social Futures
	Children and families coping with war, displacement and migration Angela Veale The intersection of psychology and medicine: how patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) can influence research and practice Audrey Dunn Galvin Is my high-performance work environment making me high-risk to burnout? Clodagh Butler Non-traditional research outputs – service related research with impact Kim Keating, Chris McCusker, Christian Ryan, Fionnuala Larkin, Fiadhnait O’Keefe
12:30	Impact and Influence through our Curriculum
	Multimedia Story of Educational Impact and Influence Across 60 Years Gillian Murphy
13:15	Lunch
14:15	People and Technology
	Thirty years of People and Technology research in SoAP: a history of Ideas, methods, and impacts Luigina Ciolfi Community Radio in the West Cork Islands Sarah Robinson Misinformation Gillian Murphy Women’s Health Sarah Foley Care Technologies Kellie Morrissey Work Technologies Conor Linehan Elevating the role of Psychology to address Sustainability Challenges Marica Cassarino, Annalisa Setti
15:15	Coffee Break and Poster Display
15:40	Keynote
	Dr Rachel Clarke Advances in Experienced Centred Human Computer Interaction, University of the Arts, London In conversation with Professor John McCarthy Retiring Chair of Applied Psychology, UCC
16:30	Concluding Comments
	Professor Chris McCusker Head, School of Applied Psychology

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