• Ebikes and active travel
• Lay perceptions and adherence to medicines

External funding

• SEAI National Energy RD&D Funding Programme 2023: Inclusive Sustainable Cycling 2 (ISCycle2): Widening Equity in Ebike Use, €979,189 (PI James Green)
• SEAI National Energy RD&D Funding Programme 2021: Inclusive Sustainable Cycling (ISCycle): Inclusive E-Bike Uptake and Sustainable Use, €642718 (PI James Green)

• European Health Psychology Innovative Initiatives Grant 2024: Health Cycology — Building International Expertise in Sustainable Mobility, €4942, PI Louise Foley, with 11 others across Europe

• National Open Research Fund (NORF) Ireland 2023: TROPIC: Training for Open Research in an Irish Context, €189,993, PI Dermot Lynott (Maynooth) with 35 researchers across 11 universities in Ireland

• North South Research Awards 2023: ENSPIRED - ENhancing Social Participation across IREland for people with communication Disabilities and differences, €200000, PI Helen Kelly/Lynda Kennedy, UL Lead: James Green

• Health Research Charities Ireland-Health Research Board 2020: Exploring diet quality in Cystic Fibrosis - enablers and barriers to eating a healthy diet in CF (PI Dr Sarah Tecklenborg/Audrey Tierney) €83708

• Health behaviour change
• Health communication
• Lay perceptions of illness
• Research methods (mostly quantitative)

I am a Chartered Health Psychologist based in the School of Allied Health, University of Limerick. I use insights from psychology to explore health related behaviours and communication. I have broad, interdisciplinary interests, including how habits may underpin maintenance of behaviour, including physical activity. I currently lead two large ebike projects. The ISCycle project (funded by SEAI and Department of Transport) aims to produce lasting modal shift from private car to ebikes. ISCycle2 builds on this foundation, with a focus on increasing equity in sustainable mobility.

Many of my previous projects have been culturally-located: research with ethnic minorities or in low and middle income countries. I also has a particular interest in research methods and open science. Previously I spent 12 years teaching communication skills and health behaviour change at the University of Otago, New Zealand.