DrCliódhna O'Connor

Dr Cliódhna O'Connor is a social psychologist and Associate Professor in the UCD School of Psychology. Her research explores the social and psychological processes through which we classify individuals into social categories and attribute causal explanations for those groups’ characteristics. She is particularly interested in how scientific and clinical classifications influence self-concept and social identity, and has explored these links in a range of social contexts including gender stereotypes and psychiatric diagnosis. Dr O'Connor leads the UCD Classification & Attribution Lab and has received funding from a range of national and international bodies, including the European Commission Horizon 2020, Irish Research Council, Health Research Board, Safefood, and the Faraday Institute at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. She is Associate Editor at the British Journal of Social Psychology and Social Psychology Section Editor at Cogent Psychology. Dr O'Connor is co-Director of the School of Psychology Equality, Diversity & Inclusion committee and led its successful Silver Athena Swan application. She is also the School's Research Integrity Champion and sits on the Research Innovation & Impact committee. She holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin (BA in Psychology), the London School of Economics & Political Science (MSc in Social & Cultural Psychology) and University College London (PhD in Psychology).