Ms Eimear Morrissey

Eimear is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Programme Manager of the Health Research Board funded D1Now study which aims to improve outcomes for young adults living with type 1 diabetes. She completed her PhD at the School of Psychology in NUI Galway in 2018, focusing on developing the evidence base for digital interventions to enhance adherence to medication in people with hypertension. Prior to this she completed an MSc in Health Psychology at NUI Galway and a BA in Applied Psychology at UCC. Following submission of her PhD, Eimear worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher on an IRC funded project entitled “Comparing the effectiveness of behaviour change interventions versus new medical treatments: Movement and medicine” which used a network meta-analysis to compare the effectiveness of first line anti-hypertensive medications to physical activity interventions to reduce blood pressure values in people with hypertension. She has extensive experience in teaching, having delivered lectures and workshops to undergraduate and postgraduate psychology, nursing, allied health and medicine students. She is actively involved in the wider health psychology community, having served as treasurer on the CREATE (early career research network within the European Health Psychology Society) for two years and is currently PRO of the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology and National Delegate for Ireland at the European Health Psychology Society. EimearÂ’s research interests include self-management of chronic disease, treatment adherence, public and patient involvement in research and behaviour change science.