TEAM News, Events & Blog

Darragh McCashin from UCD School of Psychology and the Insight Centre for Data Analytics was one of the runners-up of the UCD Thesisin3 competition with his talk: ''Integrated computer games and apps to support structured delivery of mindfulness-based CBT for children in primary care''. 

TEAM researchers digital mental health innovation project is shortlisted for the Ireland Funds Business Plan Competition. This competition promotes both creativity and entrepreneurial skills for Irish-based early-stage technology entrepreneurs. The Ireland Funds has partnered with NDRC to help bring ideas from concept to pitch.

The 18th Congress of the "European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP)" will take place in the Imperial Palace - Hofburg, Vienna from June 30 to July 2, 2019. TEAM researchers will deliver a symposium at this congress on Technology for Youth Mental Health: Involving Users, Oportunities and Ethical Implications on the 30th of June.

Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week.   Mental health problems can affect anyone for a many different reasons.  Much like physical health, mental health needs to be looked after and there are a variety of ways to do this.  

TEAM bids a fond fairwell to partner lead Prof Miranda Wolpert.  Prof Wolpert will be leaving TEAM consortium member Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (AFNCCF) to take up a new post at the Wellcome Trust from May 2019.

On the 26th April 2019, TEAM researcher Darragh McCashin joins others to discuss Pesky gNATs and digital health issues at a Digital Health Behaviour Change Research meeting at Dublin City University.

International Women's Day 2019 takes place today (8th March) and this year's theme is Balance for Better. The #Betterforbalance is a call-to-action to drive gender balance across the world.

Even though my blog post anxiety has slightly improved since my last blog post -  I moved on to seeing it as just another uncomfortable activity that is part of my life now - I still wonder, who the hell wants to know about my life or even worse my past year as an Early Career Researcher         (Why? Well, you tell me!)

As a medical doctor I have not had a lot of technical training during my education and clinical residency. But I have had a lot of training in medical conditions and gained experience in communicating with patients and doing clinical assessment. These are skills that many technically trained researchers lack.

Children’s data – everyone has an opinion, but what does the research say? A brief report from Professor Sonia Livingstone’s public lecture