

The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Conference 2018 - SASHLab on Tour!
If you follow us on social media you may have noticed that many of our lab members presented at this year's EHPS conference, held in NUIG from August 21st-25th. I was lucky enough to receive an EHPS CREATE grant to attend this year’s conference. The Collaborative REsearch And Training in the EHPS (CREATE) is a subdivision of EPHS specifically for early career researchers. As part of this grant I also had the opportunity to attend the pre-conference workshop “Who do I want to

BITSS Reproducibility Training: London Trip Report!
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) works to strengthen the integrity of social science research and evidence used for policy-making. From time-to-time BITSS run training programmes in reproducible research practices. I applied for a place on their first RT2 programme for Europe, and was delighted to be successful! The BITSS team provided us with a training manual highlighting important reading to do in advance of the course. Some of the pa


BPS Psychobiology Section Meeting: Lake District
I am on research leave for the Autumn semester this year, which means I don’t have my usual teaching or internal service responsibilities. One of the first activities I planned was to go to the British Psychological Society Psychobiology Section Annual Scientific Meeting (quite a mouthful!). This event is held around the first week in September every year, historically on the shores of the beautiful Lake Windermere. Given I am usually teaching during this week I was excited t


Conference Catch-ups
Division of Psychology, Psychology Health and Medicine Conference 2017 March was a busy month for SASH Lab members, with several of us presenting at the Division of Health Psychology, Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference hosted at RSCI on Friday 3rd March. Ann-Marie, Stephen, and Grace along with Dr. Samantha Dockray and Owen Jump from UCC’s BEATS lab convened a symposium titled “Social relationships and health- A bio-behavioural perspective”. Our symposium included re


SASHLab on Tour!
STAR Conference During the summer SASHLab members Dr. Ann-Marie Creaven, Stephen Gallagher attended the 37th STAR (Stress and Anxiety Research Society) conference, which was held in Zagreb, Croatia between July 6th and 8th 2016. The STAR conference was hosted by the Psychology Department in the University of Zagreb. Both Ann-Marie and Stephen, with help and funding from the Health Research Board, organised and presented at a symposium: Psychosomatic Influences on Health. Pres


SASHLab on Tour!
Psychology, Health and Medicine UCC At the end of May this year, SASHLab attended the 13th Annual Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, which took place on 27 May 2016, at the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork. For those who aren’t aware, the conference aims to promote health psychology and while also allowing researchers to share and discuss findings from high quality research on psychology and health. Previously SASHLab’s own Stephen Gallagher had