Welcome to PsychSlam!
Registration for 2025 is open. Celebrate our 10th anniversary with us!
Are you a TY student interested in psychology and science communication?
Would you like to learn more about how psychologists understand how people think, behave, and feel?
The PsychSlam competition organised by the School of Applied Psychology UCC gives TY student teams the opportunity to research a topic in Psychology and present their findings in a 6-minute PowerPoint presentation.
Participating teams gain experience in teamwork and science communication, and build connections with other students, researchers and psychologists.
All teams will receive detailed guidance and support, including an in-person training session on how to prepare their talk, the topics, and resources they can use to put their talk together.
Every year, students tell us that they have a wonderful experience learning about psychology and research, as well as how to present information to audiences in an informative and engaging manner (read more in the Student Teams Feedback).
The PsychSlam 2025 training day will be on Wednesday 9th April and the competition day will be on Friday 16th May
Our Team
The event is led by Dr Samantha Dockray, Dr Gillian Murphy, Dr Clodagh Butler and Dr Marica Cassarino.
The PsychSlam Team are members of several research networks and groups, as well as a range of science communication activities including:
- European Association for Research on Adolescence
- International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology
- European Health Psychology Society
- Society for Research on Adolescence
- WellTeen Network Ireland & United Kingdom
- beats-lab.com
- Teen Advisory Group
- Interdisciplinary Child Wellbeing Network
- Aspire with Abbott
- Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software
- FameLab Ireland
- UCC Environmental Research Institute
- International Association of Applied Psychology
- Psychological Society of Ireland Special Interest Group for Addressing Climate and Environmental Emergency
- Children’s Research Network
- Irish Sexualities and Gender Research Network
- Psychological Society of Ireland, Division of Work and Organisational Psychology
Psychslam Interns and Volunteers
Every year, student interns and volunteers from the School of Applied Psychology play a crucial role in welcoming and supporting the TY teams during training and the PsychSlam final.
TY students will have a chance to meet our students and learn more about studying Psychology in our BA courses in Applied Psychology and Psychology and Computing in UCC.