Course Description
Psychology: The Science of Behaviour and Mind
Trinity College Dublin
This course will present an overview of contemporary psychology and introduce participants to cutting-edge research undertaken by School of Psychology staff.
Topics include:
- Mental health.
- Using emotions to overcome emotional distress.
- Perceiving our world.
- Early adversity and later development.
- Social neuroscience.
- Imagination.
- Dementia.
This course is a lecture series, and there are no exams or course work involved. Participants who attend at least 12 out of the 16 lectures will receive a certificate of attendance. The course does not provide an academic qualification.
How to Apply:
Please complete the course application form (and paying with a Credit or Debit card via the PayPal link embedded on the website) at: www.psychology.tcd.ie/evening-course
A welcoming email will be sent in September with more detailed information and the zoom link for the first lecture. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Time and Place
The theatre will be open from 6.30.
Timetable
| Lecture No | Date | Lecture | Professor | Email address |
| Mich. Term 2023 | ||||
| October | ||||
| 1 | 4.10.23 | Advances in Brain Stimulation | Prof. Sven Vanneste | sven.vanneste@tcd.ie |
| 2 | 11.10.23 | Early Experiences and Later Development | Dr. Elizabeth Nixon | enixon@tcd.ie |
| 3 | 18.10.23 | Minding you brain – A user’s guide | Prof. Shane O’Mara | smomara@tcd.ie |
| 4 | 25.10.23 | Family systematic interventions for at-risk adolecence mental health and wellbeing | Dr. Tania Bosqui | bosquit@tcd.ie |
| November | ||||
| 5 | 1.11.23 | Organisational Wellbeing | Dr. Adele Grazi | grazia@tcd.ie |
| 6 | 8.11.23 | The Psychology of The Climate Crisis | Dr. Clare Kelly | clare.kelly@tcd.ie |
| 7 | 15.11.23 | What can be done to promote mental health and positive development among refugee children? | Dr. Kristin Hadfield | Kristin.Hadfield@tcd.ie |
| 8 | 22.11.23 | Anxiety, depression and decisio-making under uncertainty | Prof. Sonia Bishop | bishops@tcd.ie |
| 9 | 29.11.23 | Early intervention for neurodevelopmental conditions to improve functioning and adaptation | Dr. Olive Healy | olive.Healy@tcd.ie |
| December | ||||
| 10 | 6.12.23 | How We Imagine | Prof. Ruth Byrne | rmbyrne@tcd.ie |
| Hilary Term 2023 | ||||
| January | ||||
| 11 | 24.1.24 | How can we bring a damaged brain back into action? | Prof. Richard Carson | richard.carson@tcd.ie |
| 12 | 31.1.24 | Child Health and Wellbeing | Dr. Lorraine Swords | swordsl@tcd.ie |
| February | ||||
| 13 | 7.2.24 | Social Neuroscience | Prof. Redmond O’Connell | redmond.oconnell@tcd,ie |
| 14 | 14.2.24 | The wandering mind: Perspectives from psychology and neuroscience | Dr. Paul Dockree | dockreep@tcd.ie |
| 15 | 21.2.24 | Challenges of Implementing Organisational Changes | Dr. Siobhan Corrigan | scorrig@tcd.ie |
| 16 | 28.2.24 | Insights into risk and protective factors for dementia in healthy midlife | Dr. Lorina Naci | nacil@tcd.ie |
Dublin, Ireland
| College Name | Trinity College Dublin |
| Course Category | Health Care, Psychology Courses |
| Course Type | Classroom Based |
| Course Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Location Postcode | Dublin 2 |
| Course Fee | 220. There is also a concession rate of €100 available to all those retired, over 65s, and those on a government pension / payment plan and the unwaged, including second- and third-level students. Proof of status must accompany the course application form. |
| Course Duration | The course will run for 16 weeks, commencing Wednesday 4th October 2023. In the first term (Michaelmas) the course runs for 10 weeks, while the second term (Hillary), commencing Wednesday 24th January 2024, will run for six weeks. |
| Course Times | Lectures will take place every Wednesday at 7pm in the JM Synge Theatre, in the Arts Building (on campus), Room 2039. You can enter the Trinity campus on Nassau Street. This entrance will remain open until 10.30 pm. The campus can also be accessed through the main entrance on College Green. If you enter the campus from the Nassau Street entrance, the Arts Building is the building on your right. Once you enter the building, the JR Synge Theatre is over towards the left and at the back. |
| Awarding Body | Trinity College Dublin |
| Entry Requirements | Participants are unable to only join the course for one term. |
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