Orla Muldoon
Orla Muldoon is founding Professor of Psychology at University of Limerick. Having graduated with a PhD from Queens University of Belfast, she developed additional research methods expertise at University of Michigan as a JFK Scholar. Her research interests are at the intersection of social, developmental, clinical and health psychology. Her particular interest is in the application of the social identity paradigm to understand social phenomena through the use of group level analysis rather than the traditional modernist individual level analysis which predominates psychology. Often these group processes are hidden or implicit and the range of methods that are employed in Orla’s work go beyond many traditionally associated with psychology. Her interest is in models that have real world application to the solution of real world health and social problems. She is widely published in her field and has particular expertise in the role of identity in adjusting to trauma and conflict.