Biography:Orla Muldoon

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Short description: Social psychologist
Orla Muldoon
Academic background
Alma materQueen's University of Belfast
ThesisChildhood stress and coping: a psychosocial approach (1996)

Orla Therese Muldoon is an Irish social and political psychologist and professor of psychology at the Queen’s University Belfast.[1] Her research concerns how groups memberships and social identities affect health and well-being.

Education and career

Muldoon attended Queen's University of Belfast where she received a first class honours bachelor's degree in Psychology.[2] She earned her Ph.D. from Queen's University of Belfast in 1996.[3] During this time she also attended University of Michigan as a John F Kennedy Travel Scholar.[2] She was a faculty member at Ulster University and Queens University Belfast.[4] She moved to University of Limerick in 2007 to lead the development of a new department of psychology.[2][5]

Muldoon was editor-in-chief of the journal Political Psychology, a position she shared with James Liu.[6][7] She was formerly editor-in-chief of the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.[8]

Muldoon has served on the board of the Irish Research Council from 2021.[9]

Muldoon is a serving member of the Irish Medical Council.[10]

Research

Muldoon's research concerns how groups memberships and social identities mediate the relationship between health, well-being as well as social and political attitudes. She is the author with colleagues of the Social Identity Model of Traumatic Identity Change,.[11] She has examined the impact of the war in Northern Ireland on children,[12][13] the impact of domestic violence, brain injury and sexual violence.[14] and social identity and post-traumatic stress disorder.[15][16]

Muldoon has made major contributions to debates raising concern's about Ireland's response to the COVID-19 pandemic because of the lack of diversity on the panel making recommendations.[17] She has spoken with the media about the statistics of violence against women,[18][19] and is a regular opinion contributor to The Irish Times.[20]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2020, Muldoon won the Nevitt Sanford Award for outstanding contributions to political psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology.[21] She received a Fulbright Award in 2020,[22] and was one of the first two women in Ireland[23] to receive a European Research Council Advanced Grant.[24] In 2022 she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[25] In 2024, Muldoon was the recipient of the European Research Council Public Engagement with Research award.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Welcome to Professor Orla Muldoon, Head of School". January 31, 2025. https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/psy/News/WelcometoProfessorOrlaMuldoonHeadofSchool.html. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Prof. Orla Muldoon | UL - University of Limerick". 8 May 2022. https://www.ul.ie/research/prof-orla-muldoon. 
  3. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T (1996). Childhood stress and coping: a psychosocial approach (Thesis). Queen's University of Belfast. OCLC 59598412.
  4. ↑ Dekker, H. (2016-04-30) (in en). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Springer. pp. xvi. ISBN 978-1-137-29118-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=sOgYDAAAQBAJ&dq=orla+muldoon+Ulster+University+(1996%E2%80%9398)&pg=PR16. 
  5. ↑ "BBC - Northern Ireland - State of Minds - The Experts". https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/stateofminds/experts.shtml. 
  6. ↑ "Political Psychology". doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9221. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679221. 
  7. ↑ "Political Psychology; edited by: Mark Brandt and Liz Suhay". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679221?journalRedirectCheck=true. 
  8. ↑ "Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology" (in en-us). https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Journal+of+Community+%26+Applied+Social+Psychology-p-9780JNRL00402. 
  9. ↑ "Minister appoints leading academics to Irish Research Council". December 16, 2020. https://research.ie/2020/12/16/minister-appoints-leading-academics-to-irish-research-council/. 
  10. ↑ "Professor Orla Muldoon appointed to the Medical Council". February 8, 2024. https://annerabbitte.ie/new-appointment-to-the-medical-council/. 
  11. ↑ Muldoon, O. (2020). "The social psychology of responses to trauma: social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses". European Review of Social Psychology 30: 311–348. doi:10.1080/10463283.2020.1711628. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10463283.2020.1711628. 
  12. ↑ Muldoon, O. T.; Trew, K.; McWhirter, L. (1998-03-23). "Children's perceptions of negative events in Northern Ireland: A ten year study". European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 7 (1): 36–41. doi:10.1007/s007870050043. ISSN 1018-8827. PMID 9563812. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s007870050043. 
  13. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T.; Trew, Karen (2000). "Children's experience and adjustment to political conflict in Northern Ireland." (in en). Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 6 (2): 157–176. doi:10.1207/S15327949PAC0602_4. ISSN 1532-7949. http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1207/S15327949PAC0602_4. 
  14. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T. (2021). "Personal and Political: Post-Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics". Political Psychology 42 (3): 501–533. doi:10.1111/pops.12709. PMID 34219849. 
  15. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T.; Lowe, Robert D. (2012). "Social Identity, Groups, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" (in en). Political Psychology 33 (2): 259–273. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00874.x. ISSN 1467-9221. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00874.x. 
  16. ↑ Muldoon, Orla T.; Acharya, Khagendra; Jay, Sarah; Adhikari, Kamal; Pettigrew, Judith; Lowe, Robert D. (2017). "Community identity and collective efficacy: A social cure for traumatic stress in post-earthquake Nepal" (in en). European Journal of Social Psychology 47 (7): 904–915. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2330. ISSN 1099-0992. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2330. 
  17. ↑ Horan, Niamh (April 4, 2021). "Male bias in Covid decision-making leads to 'mistakes'" (in en). https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/male-bias-in-covid-decision-making-leads-to-mistakes-40272508.html. 
  18. ↑ "Prime Time interview concerning violence against women sees mixed reaction from viewers" (in en). https://www.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/prime-time-interview-concerning-violence-against-women-sees-mixed-reaction-from-viewers-40922874.html. 
  19. ↑ Geraghty, Aoife (2018-09-20). "Running While Female - Orla Muldoon Starts the Conversation" (in en-GB). https://www.runireland.com/running-while-female-orla-muldoon-starts-the-conversation-starts-the-conversation/. 
  20. ↑ Muldoon, Orla. "More people are killed by drugs than cars". The Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/more-people-are-killed-by-drugs-than-cars-1.4119502. 
  21. ↑ "Nevitt Sanford Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions to Political Psychology" (in en-US). https://ispp.org/awards/sanford/. 
  22. ↑ "Record year for University of Limerick in Fulbright Scholarship scheme" (in en). 2020-06-11. https://www.ul.ie/news-centre/news/record-year-university-limerick-fulbright-scholarship-scheme. 
  23. ↑ "A First in Ireland for two female academics" (in en-GB). 2020-03-31. https://educationmatters.ie/a-first-in-ireland-for-two-female-academics/. 
  24. ↑ "Four Irish Winners of ERC Advanced Grant Awards - €10 Million Investment in Irish Research" (in en). https://research.ie/2020/03/31/four-irish-winners-of-erc-advanced-grant-awards-e10-million-investment-in-irish-research/. 
  25. ↑ "Admittance Day 2022". Royal Irish Academy. 19 May 2022. https://www.ria.ie/news/membership-public-engagement/admittance-day-2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022. 



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