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Friday the 26th of September, 2025

Join us in Devere Hall on the Main Campus of UCC between 10:00am - 5pm for this very special event celebrating 60 Years of the School of Applied Psychology in UCC.

Registration

Registration is now open for everyone to the Impact & Innovation conference.

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.

Venue and Getting Here

The conference takes place at Devere Hall, Áras Na Mac Léinn, University College Cork Main Campus, College Road, Cork.

Parking on UCC main campus is only available to UCC staff, however UCC is well serviced by the public transport system and has public parking locations nearby.

Conference Schedule

9:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Welcome and President's Address
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

Poster Showcase

The conference will feature a number of narrative posters showcasing the depth of research, outreach, and activity in the School of Applied Psychology.

The posters will be visible around the event room for the duration of the day, and poster sessions take place on the coffee breaks.

Each poster also has a QR code that can be scanned to visit a dedicated section for them on this website containing additional information, publications, or other supplemental materials like videos.

Posters will be uploaded in advance of the conference, and can be browsed by visiting the Online Poster Showcase.

School of Applied Psychology

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Room 1.18, First floor, North Mall Enterprise Centre,

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