My research experience spans across many diverse areas, such as psychology, psychiatry, social cognition, memory, health, medicine, gerontology, human behaviour, and the arts. As part of my research, I work with psychiatrists, gerontologists, psychologists (social and forensic), GPs, computer scientists, and public health professionals. I enjoy interdisciplinary collaboration and have published and presented papers spanning across these diverse research areas. I have a passion for research, specifically in the areas of applied psychology, social cognition, cognitive impairment, mental health and related behaviours.

As my part of my research, I apply for funding to multiple funding bodies, spanning across diverse applied health and psychological research areas. For my PhD research, I successfully secured highly competitive funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) for the Humanities and Social Sciences. I have undertaken research in old age cognitive function, as part of the Cognitive Impairment Research Group (CIRG) in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical School and Department of Psychology at University of Limerick (UL) and University Hospital Limerick (UHL). As part of my Post-Doctoral research in the Medical School, I applied for and secured funding from the Irish Health Research Board (HRB) for the eyetracking technology project in UL and UHL. I have also secured research funding from University of Limerick from the Plassey Campus Scholarship fund. Furthermore, I have applied for and was successful in securing ethical approval for all the above mentioned research projects and have assisted other members of my research teams and faculty colleagues secure funding and ethical approval for various research projects.

I have experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods; in constructing research materials, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. I have worked with large data sets during my role as a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Cognitive Impairment Research Group (CIRG) at UL and UHL, as well as during my PhD, Masters, and undergraduate degrees. In my Post-Doctoral position, I was lead researcher for the eyetracking project, investigating cognitive function (attention, memory, comprehension, and vigilance) in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired individuals. I applied for and secured ethical approval for this project separately, from UL and the HRB, in order to recruit participants from both the student body and patients from UHL. The main focus of the CIRG group is researching delirium in dementia in hospitalised in-patient populations and I was involved with two such projects as well as my main project. My current and past research has involved working alone, as well as being a collaborator with other members of research teams. This involves interdisciplinary collaboration, across diverse areas of research. My present research is focused on the effects of depression and anxiety on memory.