Dr. Stephen Gallagher has published a paper titled; “Unemployment as a chronic stressor: A systematic review of cortisol studies” with Rachel Sumner. The paper was published in the Psychology and Health journal and supported by funding from the Irish Research Council.. Sumner, R.C., & Gallagher, S. (2016). Unemployment as a chronic stressor: A systematic review of cortisol studies, Psychology & Health, 1-23. DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2016.1247841 As most of you reading will know,

With the semester well underway it’s time for an update on SASHLab’s activities! First, we would like to congratulate our Assistant Dean of Research Dr. Stephen Gallagher who was recently this year’s recipient of the University of Limerick Award for Excellence in Service to Community. This award is presented to a UL member of staff annually in recognition of excellence in the area of voluntary work within the campus community and beyond. Congratulations, Stephen! SASHLab woul

Researchers from SASHLab, its sister research group the Centre for Social Issues Research (CSI-R) at UL, and its collaborators have launched the Better Together Project - a multidisciplinary research collective that focuses on health and well-being. As well as publishing cutting-edge new research, the researchers have also made vlogs of their work. There is a video from our very own Dr Stephen Gallagher, and our lab collaborators from UL. You can watch them by clicking the li

L-R: Dr Siobhán Howard (MIC), Prof Brian Hughes (NUIG), Dr Rachel Sumner (UL), Dr Stephen Gallagher (UL), Páraic Ó Súilleabháin (NUIG) SASHLab members Stephen, Rachel, and Páraic presented at the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR) conference hosted by Tel Aviv University this week. Stephen and Rachel each presented posters, one on the preliminary data from the UL Spit Study, and a review on cortisol in unemployment. Páraic did an excellent presentation on his PhD rese