Today I welcome social psychologist Orla Muldoon exploring the value of social solidarity for public adherence to health messaging during COVID19.
Orla Muldoon is a professor of social psychology at the University of Limerick. She studies ways that social contexts and in particular social systems and structures can shape behaviour, attitudes and health. She regularly contribute to the new media and in particular offer opinion editorials in the Irish Times. She is a current member of the Irish Research Council and serve on the Behaviour and communications committee advising the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET). She is currently managing an ERC Advanced grant that explores whether adversity, trauma and its psychological consequences are driven by social identity change; and a HRB-IRC funded project that is exploring the value of social solidarity to public adherence to health messaging during COVID19.
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