Staff in the Department of Psychology at NUI Maynooth are highly research active across a range of exciting new and established research areas. Staff are involved in numerous high quality international research collaborations with researchers across the globe as well as having formed several local research groups and units.  

We enjoy state-of-the-art research facilities and technical support. The Department houses a fully equipped ERPs research facility, which is home to Ireland's first 128 channel ERPS recorder, a behavioural neuroscience laboratory, a social psychology laboratory, a developmental psychology laboratory, behaviour observation equipment, a computer laboratory, a research laboratory with specifically designed research carrels, a psycho-physiology laboratory equipped with two ERPS machines, as well as a EEG, EKG, GSR and Respiration polygraph, eye tracking devices, a full psychological test library, and a postgraduate and research staff room.

We have attracted several million Euros worth of research funding over the past decade and have published several hundred scientific research papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well authoring and contributing to numerous books across several research domains. 

Our research falls into two main research streams.  Choose one from the menu on the left to find out more about these research streams.

See staff pages for more detailed information on the research activities of our academic staff members, postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers.

FOR A SUMMARY OF OUR LATEST RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS SEE OUR FEATURED RESEARCH PAGE