Dr Dagmar Corry is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. Dagmar completed her PhD in 2011 at Ulster University where she investigated the combined benefits of creativity and spirituality as a positive coping strategy. She developed the Transformative Coping Model and created two new coping scales. Dagmar subsequently taught at Ulster University as casual Lecturer, and at Wrexham Glyndŵr University as Lecturer (P/T) being appointed Senior Lecturer in 2017. Her areas of teaching included Developmental Psychology; Health Psychology; Qualitative Research Methods; Advanced Research Methods; Academic Skills; Educational Psychology; Counselling Psychology; and Psychology of Religion.

Parallel to her teaching Dagmar was engaged with the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing at Ulster University (2013-2017) as Research Associate, working on a voluntary sector study, aiming to investigate the help-seeking behaviour of young people in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland (NISAW); a programme evaluation of the Dementia Friendly Communities initiative by the Alzheimer’s Society (DFC); and an  evaluation of a healthcare passport for people living with dementia and their carers (EQUIP). In 2019, Dagmar was appointed Research Assistant at the School of Nursing and Midwifery / Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast to work on the evaluation of an anticipatory care planning (ACP) intervention for older people at risk of functional decline (a feasibility cRCT), and subsequent impact accelerator project.

Dagmar’s interests span health and wellbeing across the lifespan; strengths-based coping; positive mental health, resilience; creative mindfulness; emotion management; lifespan development; individual & cultural differences; and the emotional impact of chronic disease.

Further information on Dagmar's research can be found at:

• ORCID
• Researchgate