Ms Eimear Morrissey

Eimear is a post-doctoral researcher with the D1Now study team under Prof Sean Dineen and Prof Molly Byrne at the HBCRG and School of Medicine at NUI Galway. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Gerry Molloy and Dr. Jane Walsh at 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 uses 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 and nursing. 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. Eimear’s research interests include self-management of chronic disease, treatment adherence, digital interventions and behaviour change science.