Lecturer

Email: nigel.vahey@tudublin.ie

Tel: +353 (0)1 220 8109

Dr. Nigel Vahey is a lecturer in psychology at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He is President of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science Foundation, and associate editor of both the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science and The Psychological Record. After completing his PhD on the measurement of implicit cognition/habits with Prof. Dermot Barnes-Holmes in 2015, he worked for three years as a senior post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Robert Whelan at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in collaboration with Prof.’s Louise McHugh and Jonathan Bricker. He has a longstanding interest in translational research relating the measurement of implicit cognition and impulsivity to addiction, neuroscience, open science, web/smartphone-based interventions, and inclusive education (particularly for those with disabilities or those who are socially disadvantaged/excluded). His published research has attracted 600+ academic citations (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qA1Awo8AAAAJ&hl=en) and €500,000+ of grants/awards/scholarships.

Latterly, while teaching and working with social (care) workers, community workers and counsellors, Nigel has also developed a strong interest in the socially-constructed nature of self; universal design for learning and how it relates to prosociality, multi-level group selection, trauma, stigma, inclusion/exclusion, and public health messaging. He is a co-founder of a community of practice in Universal Design for learning in TU Dublin with colleagues from Creative Digital Media that has produced multiple international publications on universal design for learning. This community of practice is also strongly aligned with the TransformEdu initiative currently ongoing in TU Dublin (https://transformedu.ie/) – an initiative that explicitly incorporates universal design principles at its heart. Nigel proposes to build upon and leverage the universal design partnerships in TU Dublin that have already been recognised by the CEUD (https://universaldesign.ie/news-events/news/universal-design-at-tu-dublin-recognised-by-ceud.html). He is also a trained UDL facilitator for AHEAD’s national rollout of Universal Design for learning across the third level educational sector in Ireland.