Orla Muldoon

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Orla Muldoon
Academic background
Alma mater Queen's University of Belfast
Thesis Childhood stress and coping : a psychosocial approach  (1996)

Orla Therese Muldoon is an Irish social and political psychologist and founding professor of psychology at the University of Limerick. Her research concerns how groups memberships and social identities affect health and well-being.

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Education and career

Muldoon attended Queen's University of Belfast where she received a first class honours bachelor's degree in Psychology. [1] She earned her Ph.D. from Queen's University of Belfast in 1996. [2] During this time she also attended University of Michigan as a John F Kennedy Travel Scholar. [1] She was a faculty member at Ulster University and Queens University Belfast. [3] She moved to University of Limerick in 2007 to lead the development of a new department of psychology. [1] [4]

Muldoon is editor-in-chief of the journal Political Psychology , a position she shares with James Liu. [5] She was formerly editor-in-chief of the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology . [6]

Muldoon has served on the board of the Irish Research Council from 2021. [7]

Muldoon is a serving member of the Irish Medical Council [8]

Research

Muldoon's research concerns how groups memberships and social identities mediate the relationship between health, well-being as well as social and political attitudes. She is the author with colleagues of the Social Identity Model of Traumatic Identity Change,. [9] She has examined the impact of the war in Northern Ireland on children, [10] [11] the impact of domestic violence, brain injury and sexual violence. [12] and social identity and post-traumatic stress disorder. [13] [14]

Muldoon has made major contributions to debates raising concern's about Ireland's response to the COVID-19 pandemic because of the lack of diversity on the panel making recommendations. [15] She has spoken with the media about the statistics of violence against women, [16] [17] and is a regular opinion contributor to The Irish Times. [18]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2020, Muldoon won the Nevitt Sanford Award for outstanding contributions to political psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology. [19] She received a Fulbright Award in 2020, [20] and was one of the first two women in Ireland [21] to receive a European Research Council Advanced Grant. [22] In 2022 she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy. [23]

Related Research Articles

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Prof. Orla Muldoon | UL - University of Limerick". www.ul.ie. 8 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T (1996). Childhood stress and coping: a psychosocial approach (Thesis). Queen's University of Belfast. OCLC   59598412.
  3. ↑ Dekker, H. (30 April 2016). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Springer. pp. xvi. ISBN   978-1-137-29118-9.
  4. ↑ "BBC - Northern Ireland - State of Minds - The Experts". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Political Psychology". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9221.
  6. ↑ "Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  7. ↑ https://research.ie/2020/12/16/minister-appoints-leading-academics-to-irish-research-council/
  8. ↑ https://annerabbitte.ie/new-appointment-to-the-medical-council/
  9. ↑ Muldoon, O. (2020). "The social psychology of responses to trauma: social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses". European Review of Social Psychology. 30: 311–348. doi:10.1080/10463283.2020.1711628. hdl: 1885/287036 .
  10. ↑ Muldoon, O. T.; Trew, K.; McWhirter, L. (23 March 1998). "Children's perceptions of negative events in Northern Ireland: A ten year study". European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 7 (1): 36–41. doi:10.1007/s007870050043. ISSN   1018-8827. PMID   9563812. S2CID   32060268.
  11. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T.; Trew, Karen (2000). "Children's experience and adjustment to political conflict in Northern Ireland". Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 6 (2): 157–176. doi:10.1207/S15327949PAC0602_4. ISSN   1532-7949.
  12. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T. (2021). "Personal and Political: Post-Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics". Political Psychology. 42 (3): 501–533. doi:10.1111/pops.12709. hdl:10344/10561. PMC   8247337 . PMID   34219849.
  13. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T.; Lowe, Robert D. (2012). "Social Identity, Groups, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder". Political Psychology. 33 (2): 259–273. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00874.x. ISSN   1467-9221.
  14. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T.; Acharya, Khagendra; Jay, Sarah; Adhikari, Kamal; Pettigrew, Judith; Lowe, Robert D. (2017). "Community identity and collective efficacy: A social cure for traumatic stress in post-earthquake Nepal". European Journal of Social Psychology. 47 (7): 904–915. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2330. ISSN   1099-0992.
  15. ↑ Horan, Niamh (4 April 2021). "Male bias in Covid decision-making leads to 'mistakes'". independent. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  16. ↑ "Prime Time interview concerning violence against women sees mixed reaction from viewers". sundayworld. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  17. ↑ Geraghty, Aoife (20 September 2018). "Running While Female - Orla Muldoon Starts the Conversation". RunIreland.com. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  18. ↑ Muldoon, Orla. "More people are killed by drugs than cars". The Irish Times.
  19. ↑ "Nevitt Sanford Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions to Political Psychology". ISPP. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  20. ↑ "Record year for University of Limerick in Fulbright Scholarship scheme". www.ul.ie. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  21. ↑ "A First in Ireland for two female academics". Education Matters. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  22. ↑ "Four Irish Winners of ERC Advanced Grant Awards – €10 Million Investment in Irish Research". Irish Research Council. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  23. ↑ "Admittance Day 2022". www.ria.ie. Royal Irish Academy. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
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