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Dr Donncha Hanna

School Of Psychology
Dr Donncha Hanna

Dr Donncha Hanna

School Of Psychology

Dr Hanna's primary research interest is mental health including the measurement and modelling of psychological trauma, psychosis and related constructs. He has substantial experience leading, supervising and collaborating on a range of mental health and well-being projects. He is a recognised expert in research design, quantitative analyses and psychometrics.

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  • donncha.hanna@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 5549

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in;

  • Psychological trauma
  • PTSD, Complex PTSD and Posttraumatic Growth
  • The development of Psychosis
  • Constructing and assessing mental health measures, test and questionnaires
  • Using digital phenotyping and apps in mental health • Systematic reviews, meta-analysis and evidence gap maps in mental health
  • Psychometric properties of Mental Health Measures
  • Modelling predictors of mental health including: self-conscious emotions (especially shame), physical health & exercise, socio-economic status, childhood adversity & abuse, measurement issues, trauma appraisals, coping styles, etc.

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Public outreach & key achievements

Dr Hanna has successfully supervised 26 PGR students to completion at QUB. In the past 3 years 18 PGR students under his supervision have graduated. Students under his supervision have won the BPS DCP DClin research prize in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

His standing in the area of mental health & trauma is reflected by his popularity as PGR external examiner, for example, in 2019 he acted as external examiner on 8 PGR vivas. Dr Hanna has an established international research profile in the field of mental health with a h-index of 20 and a i10-index of 30. He has published a bestselling statistics text book and research methods text book. He has been an invited psychologist and academic on a number of television shows including the Afternoon Show, the Daily show and You’re a Star.


Research students

PhD area Attentional bias in OCD
Name Rachel Johnston
Years of study 2014-2018
Country Northern Ireland
   

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