Archive 2016-2017
![QUB-Psychology-Colspan-child-experiment](/schools/media/Media,566901,en-750x375.jpg)
![Children_Conflict2_1600x747](/schools/media/Media,755325,en-750x350.jpg)
Academics from the School of Psychology have been successful in attracting funding to study the potential for ECD (early childhood development) programmes to promote sustainable development and peacebuilding.
![](/schools/media/Media,760858,en.jpg)
![Psych Hike Group photo 2017](/schools/media/Media,756711,en-750x350.jpg)
Our Postgraduate Research community hosted their fourth successful Psych Hike conference on 19-21 May in Carlingford. This year the conference was held in the historic Carlingford Heritage Centre, and the hike took place around the Slieve Foye loop.
![QUB-Psychology-Banner-child-experiment](/schools/media/Media,566893,en-750x359.jpg)
Doctorate in Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology (DECAP)
![Three smiling students leaving the David Keir Building](/schools/media/Media,558216,en-750x359.jpg)
![Michele Kavanagh (Clinical Psychologist at Queens), Rebecca Hill (Queens PhD student), and Lisa Graham-Wisener (Marie Curie Research Lead](/schools/media/Media,740497,en-750x375.jpg)
A mindfulness-based intervention for palliative care staff was launched at Queen’s University to evaluate its effectiveness for improving staff well-being.
![Treasa Kilgallon in Bali](/schools/media/Media,729934,en-750x375.jpg)
Treasa Kilgallon (Psychology undergraduate) travelled to Bali during the summer to volunteer with SLV on their Mental Health Placement programme.
![Postgraduate students in front of Queen's](/schools/media/Media,555119,en-750x375.jpg)
“My name is Rebecca McClements and I am now a Psychology Graduate of Queen’s University Belfast. I studied a BSc in Psychology and loved every year of it."
![Lecturer Karolina Urbanska in Monash University Malaysia](/schools/media/Media,727349,en-750x375.jpg)
How do people in groups respond to authority decisions across cultural contexts? This is the question that led Karolina Urbanska, final year PhD student, to collaborate with Dr Miriam Park (Monash University Malaysia).
![Emma Jenks News LangUsta Lab Krakow](/schools/media/Media,727165,en-750x375.jpg)
Emma Jenks was awarded a Santander Travel Scholarship to visit the LangUsta lab in Kraków, Poland in July 2016.
![Thia Sagherian-Dickey Lebanon](/schools/media/Media,727341,en-750x375.jpg)
PhD student Thia Sagherian-Dickey tells us about her experience conducting research in the Lebanon.
![Delegates in attentence at the Enterface Conference 2016](/schools/media/Media,718718,en-750x375.jpg)
ENTERFACE 2016, University of Twente, the Netherlands