Our people - Dr. Angela Hickey

Professional Summary

Angela is the Programme Director for the PSI‑accredited BA in Psychology at Griffith College Dublin, providing academic oversight to the programme quality, curriculum development, and alignment with PSI standards. She also lectures across a range of psychology modules, including Research Methods across all undergraduate years, Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Special Education, Inclusion and Diversity, Biological Bases of Human Behaviour, and the Final‑Year Dissertation module. She is a guest lecturer at Trinity College Dublin in the Speech and Language Department on the topic of behaviour change, and at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in the Physiotherapy Department on the undergraduate Research Methods module.

Academic and Professional Background

She is a postdoctoral researcher with the Obesity Research and Care Group at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her research activities include the Healthy Hydration for Dublin Project and the evaluation of an online childhood obesity education to assess its impact on health professionals. Her current research builds on her PhD, completed at the School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, where a high level of community engagement was achieved to evaluate adolescent health behaviour change and assess their health outcomes. Her research focused on prioritising adolescence, as it is a critical time for developing healthy behaviours and on challenging health risks through a peer-led approach to support health behaviour change. She has contributed to both national and international forums, providing high-quality scientific research that enhances future health outcomes and promotes health equity among socially disadvantaged groups.