Kathleen McTiernan - Assistant Professor in Psychology
Kathleen McTiernan
Assistant Professor in Psychology
Dr Kathleen McTiernan is a Chartered Psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. Dr McTiernan’s research focuses on the links between learning and identity transformation. Her teaching and postgraduate supervision include the psychology of language learning, the psychology of speech and language disorders and psycholinguistics.
Principal Research Interests
- Multilingualism and Education The VirtuLApp project is a European Commission funded project and is delivered by an international consortium, comprising the Fryske Akademy/Mercator Research Centre (The Netherlands), ATiT (Belgium), Luca School of Arts (Belgium), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and Universidad del Pais Vasco (Spain). Together, we are developing an innovative multididactic approach which teachers can use in the classroom in any multilingual situation.
- Multilingualism and Language Learning: 'Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’: This research project forms part of a large–scale research initiative ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’, an AHRC-Funded OWRI Programme, based at the University of Manchester, and in collaboration with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Its focus is the intersection between multilingualism, language learning and higher education.
- The Life Histories Archive: Exchanging Knowledge of the Lived Life The Life Histories Archive, funded by the Irish Research Council, is a digital collection of autobiographies written by Irish women and men, over the age of 70, living in Dublin and Belfast. http://lifehistoriesarchive.com/
Recent Publications
- Gilheaney, O. Hussey, J. & McTiernan, K., The Lived Experiences of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Adults Living with Fibromyalgia, Health expectations, 27, (1), 2024, p1 - 10Journal Article, 2024 TARA - Full Text DOI
- Gilheaney, Orla & Rogers, Naomi & McTiernan, Kathleen, Exploring the lived experiences and perspectives of individuals with communication and swallowing difficulties associated with Long-COVID., Advances in Communication and Swallowing., 27, (1), 2024, p1-16Journal Article, 2024 TARA - Full Text DOI
- Gilheaney, Ó, Costello, C. & McTiernan, K., Surveying the international prevalence and nature of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties in adults presenting with Fibromyalgia., Dysphagia, 2024, p1-10Journal Article, 2024 TARA - Full Text DOI
- Gilheaney, Órla, Costello, Catherine. & McTiernan, Kathleen (2023). Physical signs and symptoms of fibromyalgia-associated dysphagia in, editor(s) Gilheaney, Órla & McTiernan, Kathleen , The handbook of eating, drinking and swallowing problems in Adults with fibromyalgia. J & R Press, pp7 – 11.
- McTiernan, Kathleen, Hussey, Joeann, Gavigan, Rhianne & Gilheaney, Órla (2023). Exploring the lived experience of fibromyalgia and eating, drinking, and swallowing problems in, editor(s)Gilheaney, Órla & McTiernan, Kathleen , The handbook of eating, drinking and swallowing problems in Adults with fibromyalgia. J & R Press, pp13 – 21.
- McTiernan, Kathleen, McNamara, Mathilde & Gilheaney, Órla (2023). Strategies for living well with fibromyalgia associated dysphagia in, editor(s)Gilheaney, Órla & McTiernan, Kathleen , The handbook of eating, drinking and swallowing problems in Adults with fibromyalgia, Hampshire. J & R Press, pp23 – 33.
- Gilheaney, Órla & McTiernan, Kathleen, The handbook of eating, drinking and swallowing problems in adults with Fibromyalgia, Hampshire, UK, J & R Press, 2023, 1 - 69ppBook, 2023
- Eating, drinking and swallowing problems experienced by people with fibromyalgia in, editor(s)Gilheaney, Órla & McTiernan, Kathleen , The handbook of eating, drinking and swallowing problems in Adults with fibromyalgia, Hampshire, UK, J & R Press, 2023, pp1 - 5, [McTiernan, Kathleen & Gilheaney, Órla]Book Chapter, 2023
- Gilheaney, Ó. McIntyre, A. & McTiernan, K., The prevalence and nature of communication and swallowing difficulties among adults with Long-COVID., Advances in Communication and Swallowing, 2023Journal Article, 2023 TARA - Full Text
- Gilheaney, Órla, Carroll, Ellen & McTiernan Kathleen (2023). How can healthcare professionals support people with fibromyalgia associated dysphagia? in, editor(s)Gilheaney, Órla. & McTiernan, Kathleen. , The handbook of eating, drinking and swallowing problems in Adults with fibromyalgia. J & R Press, pp35 – 42.
- Gilheaney, Órla & McTiernan, Kathleen (2023). The future of collaborative care provision and research into fibromyalgia associated dysphagia in, editor(s)Gilheaney, Orla & McTiernan, Kathleen , The handbook of eating, drinking and swallowing problems in Adults with fibromyalgia. J & R Press, pp43 – 54.
- Conway, A.C., Gilheaney, Ó. McTiernan, K. & Walshe, M. , Validating a Novel Tongue Pressure Measurement Device: Research Challenges. (Session 32 Free papers 'Treatment'), Dysphagia, 30, (2), 2022, p242 - 244Journal Article, 2022
- McTiernan, K., Parkes, A. and Carson, L. (2020). Multilingual Practices in Primary Education in Europe: A Scoping Review in, editor(s)Carson, Lorna, Chung Kam Kwok and Caroline Smyth , Language and Identity in Europe: The Multilingual City and its Citizens, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2020, pp125 – 144.
- Quigley, D., Smith, M. & McTiernan, K. (2019). Evaluating the Impact of a universal language enrichment programme in an area of low SES. Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists Biennial Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 17th May 2019.
- Ceroni, A., McTiernan, K. (2018). La Morgia, F., The vocabulary richness of children's television in Ireland: A cross-generational comparison., The Journal of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics, 25, 2018, p138 – 153.
- McTiernan, K. (2018). Supporting transitions in education: Educational transitioning into second level and higher education for adolescents on the Autistic Spectrum. Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conference, Wexford, Ireland. 8/11/2018.