Assoc ProfessorAmanda Fitzgerald

Mood Movement Youth Advisory Panel were winners of the 2022 Young People's Involvement iBest Use of Technology for Involvement Award. Awarded by YPii DMH Special Interest Research Group and supported by Emerging Minds.

Encourages researchers to consider and articulate the societal, economic and academic impact their research has had, and may have in the future.

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Panel discussant speaking about body image and the pressures on young people as a result of social media

I spoke about research on popularity and likability among teens, based on my contribution to a commentary in The Irish Times Health and Family Supplement

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Wellcome Trust Feel Happy [with Anxiety] Fix event at ITV Television Centre. I facilitated workshops with young people about their anxiety and the reaction of their peers, families and professionals in five areas of life; school, work, healthcare, the media and home. I then provided summaries of some of the discussions and recommendations in the various subject areas (work, health, media etc.) Fixers has now published Young People ‘Fixing’ Anxiety Issues: We Want to Get On. The report offers 15 recommendations for policy makers, professionals and health practitioners in the anxiety field. These include mental first aid kits alongside traditional ones at home and encouraging media giants to take responsibility for alleviating the pressures of life online.

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UCD Festival takes places annually. As a Chair/Member of the Youth Mental Health Lab I participate in the Festival by (co)-organizing annual events (4)

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Member of the National Advisory Board for the Erasmus+ EAGLES project: Empowering and Activating the Young Generation through Learning and employability Skills. The EAGLES project aims to develop an innovative and practical training package for young unemployed people to acquire positive coping skills based on positive psychology principles that will facilitate their personal development and their employability. The project is being rolled out across four European countries. I contributed my expertise helping to guide and shape this training initiative based on positive psychology principles, for young unemployed people. My role as an Advisory Board members was to meet with the project team and give feedback at critical stages of the project.

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Since 2013 I provide ongoing support to the Doctorate Programme in Clinical Psychology including: Supervision of clinical doctorate students, Occasional lecturing, Chair of Examiner Boards for students' voce viva, Interviewer on panel for entry candidates to the programme.

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From 2013 until 2018, I was solely responsible for organizing our School's lunchtime research seminar series. This involved inviting internal and external speakers to present their research work at a monthly seminar. I coordinated the event, informed staff across the College of Social Sciences and Law about the event, and organized for the seminar to be recorded and placed on our School's website for further dissemination.

Organizer and Chair of European Conference for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dublin. Symposium Title: Young people and mental health in Ireland- risk and protective factors of mental health, patterns of help-negation and mental health stigma.

Awarded Royal Irish Mobility Grant to travel to Stanford University to conduct research on innovative multimedia technologies and mental health interventions for young people.