My research primarily involves the use of neurophysiological recording methods such as electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG), as well as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques. I use these approaches to study:

• The neural mechanisms underpinning plasticity in the motor cortex following brain stimulation.
• The use of brain stimulation for treatment of depression, and ways of determining who will benefit from it.
• Development of portable BCIs for stroke rehabilitation.
• Neurophysiological markers of inhibitory control in balance recovery.
• Neural correlates of perceptual decision making.

I was appointed as a Lecturer after initially joining the Translational Brain Health Lab at Queen's as a research fellow in February 2024. We have recently been awarded a grant from Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke to develop the use of portable EEG-based brain-computer interfaces for movement rehabilitation following stroke.

I graduated with a BSc in Psychology at Queen’s in 2012 and was awarded the BPS prize for top graduating student. I completed a postgraduate certificate in statistics with distinction in 2014, then my PhD on brain stimulation and motor systems plasticity at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in 2015, funded by an Irish Research Council scholarship. Following this I spent another two years at Trinity as a post-doctoral research fellow funded by a European Research Council project into the neural correlates of perceptual decision-making. In 2017 I moved away from academic research to work in several government departments as a deputy principal statistician in the Northern Irish Statistics and Research Agency, project managing and leading on the analysis, reporting and dissemination of high-profile public research papers with direct impact on government policy.

PSY1008 Foundations in Psychology (neuropsychology section lecturer)

PSY2067 Group Project (personal tutor)

PSY3114 Thesis (supervisor)

PSY3139 Neuropsychology (lecturer)

PSYC405 Behavioural Neuroscience Methods Dublin City University (guest lecturer)