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Kieran Walsh
Btech., Ph.D.

kieran.walsh@nuigalway.ie
Telephone: 353 91 495460
Location: Room 331, Second Floor St. Anthony's

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Kieran Walsh completed his PhD in 2004 on “The Effects of Nursing Home Institutionalisation on the Cognitive, Sensory and Sensorimotor Abilities of Low Dependency Older Adults” at the University of Limerick (UL). He remained in UL lecturing within the M&OE Department until joining the Centre for Health Promotion Studies at NUIG in November 2005, where he worked as a Senior Researcher on the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children project. In April 2006 Kieran undertook the role of Research Officer in the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, where he has both research and teaching responsibilities.

Selected Publications

Walsh, Kieran & Waldmann, Thomas, (2005). The Influence of Nursing Home Residency on Low-Dependency Older Adults. 

Walsh, Kieran & Waldmann, Thomas, (2004). Ability Effects and Institutionalisation. In: Proceedings of 10th Cognitive Aging Conference, P125, Atlanta, GA, April 1st-4th, 2004. 

Walsh, Kieran & Waldmann, Thomas, (2002). Capability Thresholds to Assist in Interface Design for the Elderly. In: Bagnara, S., Pozzi, S., Rizzo, A. & Wright, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2002, 265-273, Catania, Sicily, September 8th-13th, 2002 

Walsh, Kieran & Waldmann, Thomas, (2005). A Multiple Covariate Analysis of the Effects of Nursing Home Institutionalisation 

Walsh, Kieran & Waldmann, Thomas, (2004). Word and Picture Recognition in Musicians and Non-Musicians.